This is another installment in our series of "What Is...?" articles, designed to offer definitions, history, and context around significant terms and issues in the online video industry. Choosing a ...

HTTP Live Streaming (or HLS) is an adaptive streaming communications protocol created by Apple to communicate with iOS and Apple TV devices and Macs running OSX in Snow Leopard or later. HLS can ...

The author is president of StreamS/Modulation Index LLC. More than 20 years ago, delivery of media content on the internet was well on its way. Initially, audio was much easier to deliver than video ...

While at IBC, visit Advantech at Booth 9.A16 to learn more about the HLS protocol stack and see a live demonstration. For meeting requests, please contact TI's Sean Gardner at . “Advantech is ...

Streaming is not a static technology. New innovations are constantly being developed. Many video and “over the top” streamers have discovered the advantage of CMAF, the Common Media Application Format ...

In a move that could help defuse ongoing tension between the two companies, Adobe has revealed plans to support streaming video on the iPad 2 by adding support for Apple's HTTP Live Streaming standard ...

When Apple discussed the new features of the forthcoming iPhone OS 3.0, SVP of iPhone Software Engineering Scott Forstall said that the iPhone would be capable of streaming video and audio directly ...

Internet video host Brightcove, among the first to begin supporting iPhone-compatible H.264 video and HTML5, is now moving to support Apple's open HTTP Live Streaming format as well, hammering another ...