Web Video
Streaming Video
With the increase in web usage and the phenomenal growth in broadband connectivity, more businesses are taking advantage of streaming video and audio technology to deliver high quality content.
The result is a blazing-fast content delivery network that's purpose-built for the rich-media, large file, broadband web of today - and tomorrow. And that means your content is just milliseconds away from almost every broadband user in the world.
Progressive Download versus Streaming Video
Progressive download is a term used to describe the transfer of digital video from a server to a client, typically using the HTTP protocol when initiated from a computer. The consumer may begin playback of the media before the download is complete. The key difference between streaming video and progressive download is in how the digital video data is received and stored by the end user device that is accessing the digital media.
The end user experience is similar to streaming video, however the digital video is downloaded to a physical drive on the end user's device, the digital video is typically stored in the temp folder of the associated web browser if the digital video was embedded into a web page or is diverted to a storage directory that is set in the preferences of the media player used for playback. The digital video file will stutter or stop play back if the rate of play back exceeds the rate at which the file is downloaded. The file will begin to play again after further download.
Progressive download opens digital media to piracy in that it can be saved and shared by the end user. Due to this unrestricted access to the digital media file, entities concerned with piracy and security of their data opt for streaming video based solutions that create a small buffer in order to initiate playback; however at no time during a streaming media session is the entire file downloaded locally as it is in the Progressive download scenario.
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