D+Mann

[|Darien Mann]

Streaming Video- ** A one-way video transmission over a data [|network]. **

It is widely used to transmit video clips and movies from the Web to desktop computers or directly to the TV set Companies stream video over their networks to their employees, and in a home network, users stream videos from their computers. The data are often not stored permanently in the destination computer; however, if a video is purchased, it may be watched as it is streamed and stored for later viewing.




 * 1) Using your Web browser, you find a site that features streaming video or audio.
 * 2) You find the file you want to access, and you click the image, link or embedded player with your mouse.
 * 3) The [|Web server]hosting the Web page requests the file from the streaming server.
 * 4) The software on the streaming server breaks the file into pieces and sends them to your computer using [|real-time protocols].
 * 5) The browser plugin, standalone player or [|Flash application]on your computer decodes and displays the data as it arrives.
 * 6) Your computer discards the data.


 * [|Totlol](for children)
 * WatchKnow (more than 11,000 videos across 2,000 categories on subjects such as math, science, and history)
 * __[|Yahoo Video Search]__
 * __[|YouTube]__ Search for and upload video
 * [|YouTubeEDU] (university video content)

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