Chapter 13 gives an overview of signaling protocols for multimedia communication. The chapter provides a brief introduction in signaling and sessions, SIP basics and signaling for instant messaging.
This chapter introduces multimedia conferencing and gives examples for applications. It also describes the typology of multi-point conferences and briefly overviews different standards for multimedia conferencing.
This chapter gives an overview of the production and management of multimedia content. This includes topics about encoding and transcoding of multimedia content, media production chains and media asset management.
This chapter introduces electronic books and magazines. It gives a brief overview of history and terminology of electronic books and introduces different ebook formats. The ePUB Standard is discussed in more detail to finish this chapter.
This chapter gives an overview of streaming architectures (high-level streaming architecture, real-time data transport, scalabitily and multicast). The chapter finishes with selected commercial streaming architectures like QuickTime or Windows
This chapter gives an overview over metadata and its concepts in general. The generic metadata standard MPEG-7 and selected metadata-relevant standards are introduced. The chapter concludes with automated extraction of multimedia metadata.
This chapter introduces cryptographic techniques (symmetric and assymetric). It also includes digital signatures and describes public key infrastructures.
This part finishes Chapter 5. In this second part watermarking is explained in more detail and DRM standards as well as commercial solutions are presented.
This chapter gives an overview of Digital Rights Management. This includes media rights in general as well as rights models and principles of encryption-based DRM Systems.
The main topics of this chapter are communities, the web and multimedia. It describes the evolution on the web, social networks and social media, as well as Web content aggregation and integration. The chapter is closed with a brief overview of
Chapter 3 deals with interactive web applications and their basics in general. In the first part of this chapter, an exemplary introduction to PHP is given.
Chapter 2 addresses general issues about realization of multimedia offerings on the Web. It goes into technical detail about embeding media data in HTML, and discusses the unsatisfactory solutions in current HTML as well as the improvements pro