HTTP Video Streaming

n8o — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:54:08 +0000

So over the weekend I’ve been playing around a little bit with HTTP video streaming. A lot of the newer video streaming technologies are starting to focus around HTTP + Adaptive streaming. The reason for this is because HTTP based streaming can scale very easily and Adaptive streaming can adjust very easily client restrictions such as bandwidth and hardware capabilities.

Microsoft (Silverlight) – supports both HTTP and Adaptive streaming with their SmoothHD.
Adobe (Flash) – supports Adaptive streaming and will be supporting HTTP streaming in FP 10.1
Apple – supports HTTP and Adaptive streaming in Safari and on the iPhone.
Move Networks – One of the first to support both HTTP and Adaptive streaming.

So in my attempt to better understand the world of streaming I ended up playing around with apples solution to live video streaming. Thanks to a few great articles at IONCANNON, I was able to create a little streaming application that would dynamically load video into Safari and onto the iPhone. Very cool stuff. I plan on working with what he created already and getting it to work with my other little side project.

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HTTP Video Streaming