Hands-On Guide to Streaming Media, 2nd Edition

CHAPTER 6

Working with Streaming Media Files

Streaming media encoders are highly versatile tools. You may find as time passes that you need to modify your streaming media files, especially information such as title, author or copyright. And you may also need to embed certain actions in a file, such as a command to open a Web address in a browser window. To do this, expert producers manipulate encoded files with utilities included with the encoder packages, or take advantage of several command line options available with encoding software. Large encoding tasks can also be automated via these options. In this chapter, you will:

•    Edit encoded streaming media files

•    Embed events into the files

•    Learn how to encode several source files ...