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Servers And Technology
One must begin by understanding the meaning of the terminology 'streaming'. There are two ways to deliver video and audio files on the net. One way is the age old process of HTTP where the viewer who needs to view the file has to click on a link on the web page and then 'download' the entire file to the client machine. In this method the viewer has to wait before the entire file has been downloaded before nay one can watch it. Now this is definitely a disadvantage of this HTTP process of delivering media on the net. However, the advantage is that once the media is downloaded the viewer can skip any part of the video he r she wants to skip. This is a time consuming method and not to be used for making a site interactive in the right sense of the word.
The other method is 'streaming'. In this method the video and audio files, that are stored or hosted on streaming servers, begin to play almost immediately on the streaming player that has been designed for the purpose of displaying streaming media. The initial delay is for about 10 to 12 seconds, depending on the speed of the network, and then the streaming video plays through to the end. This method does not require the media to be downloaded to the client server. However, the media can be replayed in future without having to be connected to the network as the streaming video will have been stored on the local machine and can be replayed any number of times. This time though the viewer can skip the parts they do not wish to view.
Streaming video technology requires that the web site needs a streaming video hosting provider for the streaming video of the site. These streaming video hosting servers are special internet servers that store streaming video for web sites. When the site, which is displayed from the web server directs a visitor to a streaming video link on the site, the link actually links up to another server, which is actually a streaming video hosting server. The streaming video is web cast from this server to the client server any where in the world. Though in many cases, the web ser itself can play host to streaming video for the site as well.
If you are looking for streaming video solutions on the web then you can surely get some good advice from Orange County. They are the pioneers of this technology and interactive media for web sites. Orange County has been around since the inception of the streaming video technology and are experts in the field. But for starters, if you need to know a little about streaming video hosting for your site, you must know that your site will never play host to more than one thousand minutes of streaming video in a single day. So, you will not really have to buy any more bandwidth the web server administrators will definitely try to sell you.
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