HTTP Live Streaming

As HTTP Streaming refers to the delivery of streaming media files via a conventional web server. The web server is the process used as a simple file server for delivery of small portions of the entire file, so-called segments. It can be stored in different quality levels on the Web server files, the terminal can change the quality levels depending on the available bandwidth, so that even in poorly -developed mobile networks streaming is possible.

The Mobile Safari for the iPhone from Apple is the First Browser this technology. For Mac OS X, this technology has been implemented on the desktop with the introduction of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and QuickTime X.

The Flash Player 10.1 (published in October 2009) now allows HTTP streaming and hardware-based decoding of H.264 videos.

Live streaming via HTTP Live Streaming can be realized a HTTP-based streaming protocol. This is the first source, such as the microphone, sent by an encoder, which creates H.264 video. This video is now decomposed into a media segmenter into pieces of equal length runtime. The resulting partial files are then delivered from the web server with at least the time delay which is required to encode the video to be segmented and to download at least one subfile.