Streaming Video Progression

Streaming video over Internet is well known process. It starts in early 90’s but nowadays it became a part of 89% of web sites. The technology today gives us a chance to stream our videos easily with more effective and less of bandwidth. With streaming video the end user can watch file almost as soon as it being downloaded. The video file is sent to the user in a constant stream and it watches it when video arrives. The huge advantage here is that you can watch without waiting for downloading. But the advantages of streaming media are much more. For example you can broadcast live shows or events, and to stream your emotions. Ok let’s now see the technology and how it works. The true streaming video is delivered from a specialized streaming server. We call this a progressive HTTP server, so the download is called progressive HTTP downloading. This technology allows us to view the video as soon as the portion of the file has been received on our PC.  This simulates true streaming video with less quality but with ability to be hosted on a normal server. This is the simplest and cheapest way to stream video over Internet or from a website. Smaller websites use exactly this method because is cost – effective for their owners. 

The progressive download  video is  typically delivered into the temporary files are of your machine. After a few seconds downloading the video starts playing. The speed of the download depends from the speed of your Internet connection and not from your hardware at all. Now let’s see how to create a HTTP streaming video. The first step is to create a video in a common video format. We recommends you to use .flv extension because is lighter and reliable format. The next step is to upload the file to your web server, or to the server you are hired. There are many companies which offer streaming video services and support.  And the final steps are to make a simple hyperlink to your video file, or to specify special HTML tags to embed the video to a website or posting blog. This is it.