Tag: Bitrate

Microsoft Smooth Streaming

Microsoft Smooth Streaming is a technology developed by Microsoft for adaptive bitrate streaming of media content over HTTP.

Quality of Service

Measure of underlying technical aspects or characteristics of media streaming (ITU.T P.10 item 6.212), including: performance, availability. Poor QoS can impact PVQ and/or QoE. In

High Efficiency Video Codec

Video compression standard, published in 2013, with the goal to succeed AVC/H.264 by reducing bitrate up to 50% while maintaining the same perceptual video quality

Encoded Bitrate

Encoded Bitrate is the bitrate of the compressed (i.e. during ABR encode/transcode) audio or video media objects, each Bitrate level representing different quality levels in

Advanced Video Coding

Video compression standard, published in 2004, with the goal to succeed MPEG-2/H.262 by reducing bitrate up to 50% while maintaining the same perceptual video quality

Adaptive Bitrate

Adaptive Bitrate is a method of video streaming that adjusts video quality based on network conditions to improve video streaming over HTTP networks. This process

Manifest

A manifest refers to a text file that describes other files that can be fetched as part of Adaptive Bitrate Streaming (ABR). A master manifest

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