Ways to publish streaming video on the Web

The beginning of the thesis deals with history of interconnection between video and the internet from its origins to the present. The thesis has two main aims. The first aim is to provide an overview of main solutions how to provide stream video over the internet. In the thesis there are described three different solutions. The first solution is to buy a complex media server. The second one is to hire a special service which can provide video storage and its distribution over the internet. The service must allow integration to various information systems and web pages or web applications. The last part of the first aim speculates about possibilities how to solve the stream video distribution over the internet in a business and commercial domain without any expenses to provide the functionality. The second aim is a practical realization of a complete project. The content of the project is a solution of video conversion, storage and distribution over the internet in a real company. The main business activity of the company is the development and providing of web pages and applications on its own servers. At the beginning of the second part of the thesis there are evaluated possible ways how to solve the goal of the project. The possible ways are solutions that are mentioned in the first part of the thesis plus development of new a solution by the company itself. The last alternative has proved to be optimal from the economic point of view. The result of the project is a web service which is completely platform independent. So it is possible to use the web service in company's content management systems that are developed in PHP or .Net. In the thesis there is also mentioned an issue of mechanism called HTTP Pseudo Streaming