Alternate Streaming Solutions
Quicktime, Real and Windows Media Player represent the three most widely used streaming applications available. However there are other solutions that may work better for you:
Cisco Systems IP/TV
InfoValue QuickVideo
Vsoft VideoClick
Xing Technologies Streamworks
3CX ix Jet Streaming Server
Microsoft Netshow Theater
Open Source Projects
There are various open source projects that have created free software for streaming media across the internet:
Icecast
Icecast was created in January of 1999 by Jack Moffitt and Barath Raghavan to provide an open source audio streaming server that anyone could modify, use, and tinker with. It is developed under the GNU General Public License by many people scattered around the globe.
Xiphophorus
The Xiphophorus company is a distributed group of Free and Open Source programmers. Our purpose is to support free, open protocols and software that ultimately serve the larger public and development communities.
Free-Expression
Free-expression.org's goals are to provide a full battery of streaming media tools, including the server, the client and codecs, which are used to encode, decode, compress and decompress data.
Links
Streaming Server.org
The clearinghouse for streaming server information.
Codec Central
If you are new to digital video, especially compressed video for CD-ROM and the Web, the two terms that you may find confusing are "architecture" and "codec". You need to understand these terms, because you must first choose an architecture for your project.
Making Multimedia Movies
This educational material is for people who wish to make multimedia movies for CD-ROMs and WWW sites. It is not intended for people who wish to use the computer as an editing and effects machine, but then output back to tape. While some of the information contained here is useful for the "tape output" crowd, the focus is on the specifics of low bandwidth multimedia preparation.
How to Produce High Quality Quicktime
This document is written for developers and video professionals who want to "do it right." If you are new to creating and delivering QuickTime movies, this document should help give you a good understanding of the basics, and help you get started. If you're a QuickTime professional, we hope that the details and tips contained in this document will help you deliver even better QuickTime movies.
Tegrity
Tegrity provides software that instantaneously moves the classroom experience onto the Web while enhancing teaching in the classroom
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