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Adaptive Bitrate
Application Programming Interface
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Common Media Client Data
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Content Delivery Network
Coordinated Universal Time
Digital Rights Management
Digital Rights Management (CDN)
Encoder Boundary Point

Category: Protocol (Application)

HTTP Redirect

URL redirection, also known as URL forwarding, is a technique to give more than one URL address to a resource. HTTP has a special kind of response, called a HTTP redirect, for this operation.

Real Time Streaming Protocol

Protocol developed by the IETF and published in 1998 as RFC 2326 (later revised in RFC 7826), for use in streaming media systems. RTSP lets a client remotely control a streaming media server, issuing VCR like commands such as “play” and “pause”, and allowing time-based access to files on a

Transport Stream

Transport Stream is a container format encapsulating packetized elementary streams of audio, video and other data for transmission and storage purposes. It is the main format in digital satellite, cable and IPTV.

WebVTT

WebVTT files provide captions or subtitles for video content, and also text video descriptions, chapters for content navigation, and more generally any form of metadata that is time-aligned with audio or video content.

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