Multimedia Broadcasting over the Internet: Part I

  • Authors:
  • Borko Furht;Raymond Westwater;Jeffrey Ice

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE MultiMedia
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

Although the industry is still in the early stages of webcasting, we can already foresee what the Internet will offer a few years down the line: clear, crisp audio and full-screen, high-quality, on-demand video. We have developed a technology that provides all these required features for Internet webcasting. This technology consists of: IP Simulcast, a new Internet broadcast protocol, which provides inexpensive, efficient, and reliable audio and video broadcasting; and new audio and video compression algorithms, which allow real-time audio and video transmission of data at low bit rates and with high quality. In this article, we describe a new Internet broadcast technology