According to Wikipedia’s definition, “Streaming Media” are multimedia that are constantly received by, and normally presented to, an end-user while being delivered by a streaming provider. Find it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_media. It talks about history, streaming bandwidth and storage, protocol issues. Oh, those streaming media technologies can scare you away. But actually, you just know it. Internet television is a commonly streamed media.
No doubt that, Hulu in the United States and BBC iPlayer in the United Kingdom are the most popular streaming media services during current 21st century. Because they’re based on millions of TV shows. And most other television providers offer similar streaming media service on Internet. Besides Internet television, media content rental store such as Netflix also offers instantly streamed online TV & movies.
Any media formats could be used for online streaming easily, but nowadays we have the standard de facto for streaming audio and video. For audio, MP3 is used as the common sense for long time, whatever online or offline. And for video, that is, MPEG-4 package with H.264 encoded as the most common way to stream over Internet.
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Why We Watch Streaming Videos Online
This is not a question. Certainly this is what we usual do.
How to Stream Videos over Internet
It’s not easy for this, if you want to live stream something happening now. There will be streaming media servers, and other technologies or costs. But it’s relatively easy if you just want to share videos as streaming media online. Try YouTube or Megavideo for this.
How to Download Streaming Videos to Computer
Here is the way how we finally stop streaming media, because we can download those online streams to other video formats. For example, record the streaming videos, and transfer them to your iPod.
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