• Section: Increase Traffic - Category: Web Hosting
• Written by Bill Pratt

In the past, there were a couple of attempts to have video displayed on websites but they were usually failed attempts because of the lack of bandwidth and technology. Technology has been able to overcome these challenges with a lot of more powerful computers, as well as standard formats and protocols. There are more and more computers that are equipped with faster CPUs, which could access broadband. As a result, video streaming has gained a lot of popularity.

With true video streaming, users are able to begin watching files almost as soon as the download begins. The file would be sent to the user through an almost constant streaming, making the user able to watch the video as soon as it arrives. An obvious advantage would be that you no longer need to wait for the video to be completely downloaded. Streaming media has a lot of advantages and benefits like having the a

bility to broadcast live events - this is called a netcast or webcast. True video streaming could be done by delivering the video from a server, which is specially for streaming.

Progressive downloading are similar to HTTP streaming, because it enables videos to be viewed once there has already been a portion of the entire file that is received. This actually simulates true video streaming, however, the quality is not the same. A benefit would be he ability of being hosted on a regular server. This would be the cheapest and simplest method of streaming video from a website. The smaller and medium-sized websites would probably be using this technique rather than the costlier streaming servers. If you would be using this method, you need not have a special type of host or website. You would just need a host server that would recognize common types of video files.

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