Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Medium
2.1 What is Streaming Media?
2.2 How Does Streaming Media Work?
2.3 Why Was Streaming Media Invented?
2.4 Why is Streaming Media Better?
2.5 Who is Driving Streaming Media's Innovations?
2.6 What's Wrong with Streaming Media?
2.7 When Will Streaming Media Be Ready for Prime Time?
Chapter 3: The Audience
3.1 Who Will Watch?
3.2 How Will We Watch Streaming Media?
3.4 When Will We Watch?
3.5 Why Watch Streaming Media?
3.6 What Will We Watch?
Chapter 4: The Business
4.1 How Will Anyone Make Money With Streaming Media?
4.2 Who Will Make Money?
4.3 When Will Streaming Media Make Money?
4.4 Why Will Streaming Media Make Money?
Chapter 5: Upsides - Downsides
5.1 How Significant is Streaming Media?
5.2 What Could Go Wrong? 
Conclusion 
Appendix A: MPEG-4 Profiles 
Visual Profiles 
Audio Profiles 
Graphics Profiles 
Scene Graph Profiles 
Appendix B: MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 Coding Compared 
Appendix C: Audio and Video Sweetening Techniques 
Audio Sweetening 
Video Sweetening 
Appendix D: Real World Streaming Media Encoding 
Encoding Machines 
Software-Based Encoding Tools 
Encoding Labs 
Precompression Signal Conditioners 
Video Capture Cards 
Appendix E: Video and Audio Compression 
Introduction 
Transform Coding 
The JPEG Standard 
The MPEG Standard 
How MPEG-2 Was Tuned for High Quality of Experience 
MPEG-4 Video Compression 
Concatenation 
Digital Audio Data Compression 
References 
Glossary 
Sources 
Bibliography 
Index