ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the basic architecture and components of mobile broadcast multimedia delivery systems, including corresponding protocols for video delivery and video compression standards. It describes the basic video services and video delivery schemes in digital broadcast networks, as well as a digest of the application that brought forth the need for massive deployment of mobile broadcast technologies: mobile television. Streaming video is a trend that has emerged in the last decade. The determining factors in performance and cost are the quality of the necessary equipment; appropriate video content enhancement with text, graphics, and so on; encoding of the material; and latency demands, as a live coverage has to be as “live” as possible. Unicast streaming services such as video on demand include streaming media content over fixed/mobile and wired/wireless networks to the subscriber/user. The Video Coding-1 video codec was initially developed by Microsoft under the formal name SMTPTE 421M.
