TABLE OF CONTENTS Standard: A standard is an agreed-uponset of principles and methods to achieve a technical task. The MPEG set of standards is anexample.
MPEG:The Motion Picture Experts Group (MPEG) is a body of engineers and organizations that define theMPEG audio and video technical standards.
Opensource: The open source philosophy and practice of software engineering permitsanyone using a piece of software to view and modify the source code, thus revealing and possiblychanging the software s methods. In the proprietary model, usually practiced by commercialenterprises, viewing and modifying the source code violates the software s license.
SMIL:Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) is an XML-compliant, open standard markuplanguage designed to integrate still images, text, and advanced interactivity with streaming audioand video.
Peer-to-peer (orP2P): Peer-to-peer networking is a simple network architecture wherein all thecomputers on the network have equal status. Some streaming media solutions use peer-to-peernetworking to manage bandwidth more efficiently.
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The wonderful thing about software is that there s always a different way of doing something.The universe of 1s and 0s is the most plastic ever conceived. In the streaming...
