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RTP vs RTSP streaming media protocols The Many Ways to Stream Video Using RTP vs RTSP Streaming Media By Howdy Pierce RTP and RTSP are commonly used protocols to stream video over the internet. This blog post highlights the differences between them, pros and cons, and how to implement them on your devices. Details
WebOS List Formatters Software Development By Chad Scates Here at Cardinal Peak, we’ve been doing quite a bit of development on webOS, Palm’s new operating system for smartphones. WebOS is based on Linux, and it relies heavily on web standards like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It’s a great programming environment, but since it’s also rather new, there’s a lot of tribal knowledge still… Details
Howdy Pierce The Importance of Encrypting Video Over IP Video By Howdy Pierce I just read a report of a new IP security vulnerability being demonstrated today at the DefCon hacker’s conference in Las Vegas. The new hack has two components: 1. The attackers are able to view video being streamed across a network, and 2. The attackers are able to use a man-in-the-middle attack to insert video controlled by the attacker to a video decoder somewhere on the network. The linked video shows viscerally how an attacker could foil a security/surveillance video system — a modern-day Thomas Crown Affair. Details
Mike Perkins Power Measurements With the DFT Signal Processing By Mike Perkins Many of the systems we work on here at Cardinal Peak employ analog-to-digital conversion in one form or another. It seems like almost invariably some analog signal needs to be digitized or “sampled.” Sampling is the process of periodically looking at an analog signal at some sample rate, and then converting each measured value into… View Article Details
Howdy Pierce Welcome to the Peak Outsourced Engineering By Howdy Pierce Welcome to our blog! We see this blog as an experiment with social media…. Details
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