Finally, there's a start-to-finish guide to Internet video for everyone who needs to understand it: Web professionals, managers, software developers, marketers, and hobbyists, even investors. Mastering Internet Video brings together clear, coherent coverage of every key issue: compression, formats, standards, servers, software, hardware, networking, multicasting, digital rights management, video editing-even troubleshooting. Damien Stolarz offers both conceptual and practical information, as well as coverage of all leading formats and platforms. Best of all, he presents easy-to-use, step-by-step solutions for each of today's most common Internet video usage scenarios. Coverage includes

• Comprehensive conceptual coverage of capturing, preparing, and deploying video on the Internet
• A practical guide to video compression-including expert help with performance and quality tradeoffs
• Objective information for evaluating streaming servers, software, and hardware-including solutions from Microsoft, Real, Apple, Macromedia, and others
• How networks and the Internet handle video data-including the challenges of real-time data delivery