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Hands On Adaptive Bitrate Streaming

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3 Day Course
Hands On
Official Curriculum
Code PWL390

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What are the problems delivering WebTV? (9 topics)

  • Defining WebTV
  • Comparison with other IPTV options
  • Video on demand
  • Multicast IPTV for live delivery
  • Problems of packet loss, variation in delay and restricted bandwidth
  • Exercise: Building in-class IPTV delivery network Hands-on
  • Exercise: Hands-on classroom Demonstration of IPTV and Web TV problems
  • Some key WebTV Sites
  • WebTV Services

Fundaments of Web Protocols (28 topics)

  • Transport of WebTV Streams
  • Encoding and Rendering Web Video
  • Encoding using Microsoft Expression Encoder
  • Video Encoding options
  • Audio Encoding options
  • Comparing bit rates and latency
  • Hands-on exercise experiment with bandwidth and quality
  • Progressive Download
  • Multicast delivery
  • Client/Server issues
  • Peer-to-peer options
  • The Player options
  • RTP and RTCP
  • Deploying RTP delivery
  • Hands-on exercise analysing Ethernet and IP connection with Wireshark
  • Hands-on exercise comparing UDP and RTP delivery
  • Transport layer options: UDP and TCP
  • TCP Delay and Throughput issues
  • Hands-on exercise carrying HDTV streams over TCP and UDP
  • The impact of errors on video
  • Error recovery with TCP
  • Out of sequence data
  • Variation in delay
  • Packet loss
  • Hands-on exercise delivering TV over HTTP
  • RTSP
  • HTTP and Web Protocols
  • RTMP

Adaptive Bit-rate Streaming (8 topics)

  • Adaptive bit-rate streaming technologies
  • Why we need Adaptive bit-rate Streaming
  • Hands-on Demonstration of working Smooth Stream
  • Hands-on exercise analyzing protocols and stream packets
  • How Adaptive systems work
  • Use of key frames, Manifest files, Fragments, Segments and Bootstrap info
  • Profile tuning
  • Requirements of Encoding for Adaptive Bitrate Streaming

Configuring Microsoft Smooth Streaming (8 topics)

  • Configuration of Windows 7 Professional for Smooth Streaming Web Delivery
  • Installing IIS Updates for dynamic Delivery
  • Installing the Silverlight Client
  • Positioning the Encoded Media
  • Building Web Pages with Embedded Players
  • Hands-on Configuration of Smooth Streaming Server
  • Configuring the Smooth Streaming Player Web Page
  • Testing the service over WiFi using an Internet Simulator

Adaptive Streaming to iPhones and iPADs using HLS (5 topics)

  • Apple HLS
  • Limitations of iPhone models
  • Encoding for iPhone and iPAD delivery
  • Options for iPAD delivery
  • Hands-on Delivery of content to iPhone and iPAD

Configuring Adobe HDS (7 topics)

  • Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming
  • Encoding for adaptive bitrate flash
  • The packager and packaging for video delivery
  • Hands-on Exercise running the packager
  • Hands-on Installing Adobe Media Server
  • Configuring RTM Streaming Video Live
  • Building an OSM Player Hands-on

Comparing Adaptive Bitrate Streaming Systems (9 topics)

  • Adobe HDS, Apple HLS and Microsoft Smooth streaming compared
  • Delivering the service commercially
  • Content Protection - Licensing server setup and configuration
  • Adobe Access 3
  • Microsoft PlayReady
  • Measuring video quality and user experience in a mulit-platform world
  • Content Delivery Networks: how they work
  • Future evolution of the technology
  • Evaluation and Review

Prerequisites

This course is intended for engineers, service designers, developers and systems engineers involved in the development of WebTV products and services.

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