In the rapid development of the information society today, the network has become one of the important media means, weekdays, we ignore and habits of action has hinted that we are all the way in the network. When we sit in front of the computer and open IE, in the Address bar, type the URL as early as you remember; when we double-click the beautiful Penguin icon on the desktop, pop the familiar dialog box; When we walk into the online supermarket, we feel the convenience of not being limited by the local time; when we freely express our views and opinions in BBS When we have been accustomed to browsing the news on the internet and forget the side there is television, when we feel the Internet to bring the convenience of e-commerce ... At this time, we have unconsciously become accustomed to the network.
Network development to today, multimedia intervention can be said to play a pivotal position, today's network is not only pure text, the era of pure image. The development of Flash has laid the foundation for the multimedia network, while the traditional media plays the video, the audio also gradually network, this is we talked about the multimedia network, the network is by the video, the audio rich content, has developed the form.
We can describe the network as a huge library, a huge video, audio library, where we can find any video, audio files we want, and easily download to the local machine. And the realization of the broadband technology provides a favorable condition for the online audio-visual on the network. At this point, we are really in touch with streaming media technology.
Streaming media
Streaming media in English name is: Streammedia, it is actually a streaming media. It is the realization of the traditional media network, and through the form of online on-demand broadcast to viewers.
Streaming media playback different from the Internet download, the need to download audio and video files to the local computer in the playback, and streaming media can be downloaded while watching, this is the characteristics of streaming media.
With the development of broadband technology, streaming media technology has been widely used in Web pages, successfully implemented online VOD, online audio-visual, online broadcast and so on.
Types of streaming media platforms
Below we will introduce the current popular streaming media technology.
Visible streaming media set up the mainstream platform is divided into three kinds:
RealNetworks
WindowsMedia
QuickTime
RealNetworks is the real company developed a set of streaming audio and video solutions, is the most popular today, widely used streaming media technology.
WindowsMedia is a streaming audio-video solution developed by Microsoft in the United States.
QuickTime is a streaming audio-video solution developed by Apple.
The latter two are not very high on the network, so we will use real company's streaming media technology to achieve online audio-visual.
Real streaming audio and video solutions
Real streaming media technology is based on the need for 3 software support.
RealPlayer player
Realproducer Editing and making
Realserver Server Below we will introduce the three software separately.
RealPlayer, which is well known software, has evolved from early RealPlayer to realplayer8.0,realplayer9.0 and has now been upgraded to RealOne and realoneplayergold versions. Real is a *.rm,*.ra,*.ram-specific format. Occupies a very small space, and has a good audio-visual quality, is widely disseminated on the Internet.
Realproducer, is an editor to make real unique files of software, we download to the *.rm,*.ra,*.ram, files are from the original audio-visual files, through the software transformation, Realproducer is undoubtedly a best conversion software. It also has one of the biggest features, but also we do real server must be, it can convert audio and video files into a streaming audio and video files, which can be based on the speed of the browser to transmit different quality of audio and video files, detailed content we will be in the specific transformation of the introduction.
Realserver is also the core software of the entire streaming media erection platform, through the establishment of realserver, can enable the viewer to access the server's audio-visual files, thereby realizing online audio-visual.