What is Adaptive Bitrate Streaming (ABS) for Video?

Chris Knowlton from Wowza explains the science of streaming. What is adaptive bitrate (ABR) and adaptive bitrate streaming (ABS) and why do we need it for successful video streaming?

This presentation was given at the Production Live! expo at the Washington State Convention Center on Tuesday 31st January 2017
http://wwww.production-live.com

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