Chapter 14
Playing Video on the Chromebook
IN THIS CHAPTER
Exploring video on Chromebook
Using the Chromebook video player and the VLC app
Viewing videos taken with your smartphone on your Chromebook
Watching movies on Google Play Movies
Exploring YouTube
Watching video used to be relegated to televisions and video playback devices like VHS players, DVD, and Blu-ray. However, thanks to the prevalence of high-speed Internet access, increasingly powerful computers, and wireless broadband, the Internet has become a primary delivery mechanism for video content of all kinds, from “television” series to how-to videos and videos of cats.
Streaming video has become one of the major uses of Internet bandwidth in the 21st century. According to a report from Cisco (one of the largest manufacturers of commercial networking equipment), 80 percent of all Internet traffic is video (in the United States, it’s a staggering 85 percent). Recent statistics show that more than 1.9 billion unique users ...
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