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Apple |
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| The Apple QuickTime media portal | www.apple.com/quicktime |
| QuickTime products. Starting place for player downloads and information on the QuickTime streaming server | www.apple.com/quicktime/products |
| Best place for QuickTime developers | developer.apple.com/quicktime |
Microsoft |
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| Windows Media | www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia |
| MSDN Online Windows Media Developer Center | msdn.microsoft.com/windowsmedia |
| Mobile devices using Pocket PC and Smartphone | www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile |
Real |
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| Real Media portal | www.real.com |
| Real Networks | www.realnetworks.com |
Streaming Technology |
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Compression |
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| Compressed Speech FAQ WWW site. This site provides a range of information on speech technology, including speech synthesis, speech recognition, speech coding, and related material. |
www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/comp.speech |
MPEG |
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| MPEG Home | www.cselt.it/mpeg |
| Fraunhofer Institute (MP3 and audio codecs) | www.iis.fhg.de |
| MP3 technical organization | www.mp3-tech.org |
| MPEG Pointers and Resources (mainly MPEG 1 & 2) | www.mpeg.org/MPEG |
| MPEG licensing authority | www.mpegla.com |
| MPEG-4 Industry Forum | www.m4if.org |
| AVC Alliance | www.avc-alliance.org |
Organisations |
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General Industry Groups |
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| International Webcasting Association (IWA) | www.webcasters.org |
| DiMA - The Digital Media Association | www.digmedia.org |
Telecomms & IP |
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| International Telecommunications Union. Set the standards for telcos. | www.itu.int |
| American National Standards Institute | www.ansi.org |
| Internet Engineering Task Force. This is where to find all the requests for comment (RFC). | www.ietf.org |
| The MPLS Resource Center | www.mplsrc.com |
| CableLabs - DOCSIS information | www.cablemodem.com |
| Cable-Modems.Org - The cable modem reference site | www.cable-modems.org |
| DSL Forum, info on ADSL | www.dslforum.org |
World Wide Web |
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| World Wide Web Consortium. Info on HTML, XML and SMIL | www.w3c.org |
Content Delivery Networks |
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| Internet Streaming Media Alliance | www.isma.tv |
| Kendra Initiative - Content delivery research | www.kendra.org.uk |
Digital Rights Management |
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| Info on the public key initiative | www.pki-page.org |
E-commerce |
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| eXtended media commerce language | www.xmcl.org |
Streaming Information Portals |
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| Streaming Media (Information Today Inc.). News, tutorials and jobs. Magazine and web site. | www.streamingmedia.com |
| Digital Media Net | www.digitalwebcast.com |
| Streaming Media World | www.streamingmediaworld.com |
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