What is Adaptive Streaming?
This post is a part of our educational series on Live Streaming Basics for the Newbie and Video on Demand Basics for the newbie. What is Adaptive Streaming? Adaptive streaming is a video streaming technique that detects a viewer’s bandwidth and CPU capacity in real-time and adjusts …
The Nuts and Bolts of Live Streaming
This post is part of our educational series on Live Streaming Basics for the Newbie and Video on Demand Basics for the Newbie. Introduction There are various factors that influence the success of a live stream such as settings of technical parameters (E.g. segment size), quality of the internet …
Understanding Codecs and Formats
This post is a part of our educational series on Live Streaming Basics for the Newbie and Video on Demand Basics for the Newbie. Audio and Video Codecs A Codec is technology used to compress the data. Common video codecs (also called video format) include MPEG-4/H.264 …
Video on Demand Basics for the Newbie
This post is a part of our educational series for those new to streaming. There are various platforms offering services for managing and streaming Video on Demand. Using these platforms requires at least basic technical knowledge so you can setup streaming for your video(s). By the time you finish reading …
Live Streaming Basics for the Newbie
This post is a part of our educational series for those new to streaming. I’ve just joined the brilliant team at StreamShark to lead business development activities. Having a technical background and a passion for technology products, I was eager to use our platform and also …
