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Popular examples of streaming services include Netflix, Spotify, YouTube, and Disney+. An over-the-top media service (OTT) is a streaming media service offered directly to viewers via the Internet. OTT bypasses cable, broadcast, and satellite television platforms, the companies that traditionally act as controllers or distributors of such content.
By definition, a media server is a device that simply stores and shares media. This definition is vague, and can allow several different devices to be called media servers. It may be a NAS drive, a home theater PC running Windows XP Media Center Edition, MediaPortal or MythTV, or a commercial web server that hosts media for a large web site.
Online video platforms allow users to upload, share videos or live stream their own videos to the Internet. These can either be for the general public to watch, or particular users on a shared network. The most popular video hosting website is YouTube, 2 billion active until October 2020 and the most extensive catalog of online videos. [1]
Plex Inc. is an American software company that runs its namesake ad-supported streaming media service that provides television shows and movies to users worldwide, and further provides a platform to discuss and discover content across all major subscription streaming services. Plex also develops media server software and a series of apps that ...
Red5 – Apache licensed media server for RTMP and HLS. QuickTime Broadcaster – Free on OS X. Sirannon – a GPL, C++ media server and client. SHOUTcast – audio streaming (HTTP and/or multicast) SoundBridge. Starlight Networks – StarWorks and StarLive, early commercial Streaming products. TVersity Media Server – partially open source ...
Kaleidescape, Inc. is an American multimedia company based in Mountain View, California. Founded in 2001, it designs multi-room home entertainment server systems that store and play back video and audio content (such as movies, television shows, and music) to movie players that can be connected to televisions or projectors.
In addition to the equipment already found in a film-based movie theatre (e.g., a sound reinforcement system, screen, etc.), a DCI-compliant digital cinema requires a DCI-compliant [32] digital projector and a powerful computer known as a server. Movies are supplied to the theatre as a set of digital files called a Digital Cinema Package (DCP ...
Comparison of UPnP AV media servers. The following table compares the operating system support and basic features of various UPnP AV media servers. Name. License. Cost. OS X. Unix-like. Windows. Audio.