In olden days if we want to publish video on website then all your website visitor who are interested for viewing them will have to first download entire video file on their local machine and then they can watch it, it was very time consuming process and no one want to wait for anything to download and view nowadays. Now you have a better option popularly known as STREAMING TECHNOLOGY. In this technology video is playback while it is downloading so no need to wait for long hours to get your favorite video clip download completely on your local machine. If you are using this Video Streaming technology all your webusers should have streaming video player installed on their system so that they can enjoy your video clip.
Currently there are three major players that all webmaster will most likely have: QuickTime, Real Player, and Windows Media. In Streaming technology media/video files are transmitted in a continuous stream of data which is processed by the receiving computer while the entire file is still in transmission process. Video Streaming technology uses data compression technique so as to deliver data faster at other end. Requesting computer should have video player which will accept all streaming data and will decompress it and will send proper signals to display and sound devices. Once downloading of streaming file starts from website on users computer it will start paying audio/video file without any delay, video playback also depends on your modem and internet connection speed you have for your system.
Thus Video Streaming technology is promising video technology for all webmasters who are related with audio and video industry.
