Digital Video Streaming with Open Source software

General system administrator knowledge

This course is created for developers, admins, software engineers who want to implement Video Streaming in their application. It is based only on open source software.

Short history and current status on video streaming

1. First proprietary solutions
2. First open source solution
3. HTML5 and streaming

Aspects of streaming and possible solutions

1. Formats for audio and video
2. Compression and codecs
3. Transport methods
4. Quality of Service
5. Streaming servers
6. Streaming clients
7. Digital Rights Management
8. Real-time streaming, on-demand serving, Web-casting
9. Preprocessing
10. Playlists
11. Logging and statistics
12. Watermarking
13. Security

Demo on a chosen opensource solution

1. Server configuration
2. Monitoring and debugging the clients