Two major technical schools of streaming media

So far, the use of more streaming media formats on the Internet mainly includes the realmedia of the real Networks Company and Windows Media of Microsoft Corporation.

1. RealMedia

Real Networks is the world's leading provider of streaming audio and video solutions, offering all products from the production side to the server to the client side. It provides the world's leading online streaming audio and video solutions, in the broadest range, with the fastest connection speed to provide the best performance multimedia results, with strong system management and scalability, and has an open, standard, cross-platform architecture. Real systems are excellent systems that support streaming media technology, and the real format has a very high compression ratio and good transmission capabilities, and is ideal for information dissemination on the Web. Server-side software is real Networks's latest version of real Server 8, a superb cross-platform streaming media server with powerful network management capabilities, support for a wide range of media formats, and support for the widest spectrum of internet users and streaming media business models. Real Networks company has released RealAudio 1 since 1995. Since 0, RealAudio and RealVideo products have become the most popular solutions on the Internet. Its sure stream (adaptive streaming) technology is a representative technology of real Networks company. Depending on the client's different dialing rates (different bandwidth), the technique automatically adapts the transmitted information to the bandwidth and is always played in a smooth manner. The Realsystem IQ of the region transfer function is added to the satellite transmission technology. The client player RealPlayer has more than 1 global registrations. 600 million people, occupies 60% of the online streaming audio and video on-demand market.

2. Windows Media

The huge market prospect in the field of streaming media makes many manufacturers devote themselves to it, and the Microsoft Company has also launched fierce competition in this field in recent years. Currently, Microsoft has bundled Windows Media technology into Windows 2000. Microsoft's introduction of Windows Media Technology for its convenience, advanced, integrated, Low-cost, and so on, has been gradually recognized by people. Windows Media, formerly known as Microsoft's NetShow, has introduced a whole stream of streaming media production, publishing, and playback software, with its server-side Windows Media Server integrated in Windows SQL Server, as streaming media is widely used.

A big feature of Windows Media is that its production, publishing, and playback software is integrated with Windows nt/2000/9x and does not have to be purchased. Microsoft's streaming video solution is free on the Microsoft Windows platform, with good audio and video quality and easy to use, but currently has a gap in overall solutions compared to real networks software and can only be used on the Microsoft platform.