Chapter 14. Streaming Audio and Video
Introduction
Streaming is used to deliver, and simultaneously view, time-based media. Time-based media includes video and audio. Other kinds of presentations include play lists of audio or video, or perhaps image slide shows expressed in a markup language that specifies when they should be displayed.
The alternative to streaming media is download and play. In this style of playing time-based media, the media file is first downloaded and then played. This is suitable for media of short duration and/or small size. For long media, the user would not want to wait 10 minutes for download before watching a 10-minute video. Streaming allows the user to view the media while it is being downloaded.
Streaming media on ...
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