Streaming Video

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For example, there is streaming video and streaming audio. Audio and video are the mediums or content, but streaming refers to the way that the product is being sent from one place to another over the Internet or through another method.

Streaming video or media was around before the Internet, but it was not referred to as such. Most of us call it television.

Since there are no so many ways in which people can receive information, including videos, many people are able to understand that there needs to be a distinction between styles of sending. Streaming video can also be used in order to describe a television channel. In this way, an individual can acknowledge that while streaming video is not just used on the computer this is a very popular example. Still, it is used in various other methods around the home. In some homes, there are security cameras which will stream the video from one part of the home to another area in the home.

Streaming does not have anything to do with the distance over which the video will travel. Rather, this merely refers to the manner in which the information gets transferred between locations. The same process can be applied to businesses and offices which is used in the home. Some alarm companies or security companies will actually allow owners to sign in on the internet from a remote location in order to view the security feeds on the cameras that are placed in the individual owner’s place of business.

• Video Streaming Info
  • Understanding Streaming Video
  • The Best Streaming Video Players
     
• Streaming Audio and Video
   
• Internet Streaming Media Alliance (ISMA) is a non-profit corporation formed by Apple Computer, Cisco Systems, IBM, Kasenna, Philips and Sun Microsystems. The ISMA was setup to ensure that different MPEG-4 products implement the standard in the same way. The goal being interoperability.
   
• Darwin Streaming Server for Windows and Mac. This is an open source server available from Apple. It serves QuickTime files and is MPEG-4 and MP3 compatible.
   
• Distribute Windows Services is a list of How-to documents for setting up Microsoft Media Services.
   
• QuickTime Streaming Server is free from Apple and is MPEG-4 and MP3 compatible.
   
• QuickTime Broadcaster is Apple’s live encoding software that lets you produce professional-quality live events for online delivery.
   
• Palantir is a multi-channel interactive streaming system. The server runs on Linux and uses Java based applets as clients.