Posts Tagged ‘video playback’

Audio Video Streaming

We all have grown up with radio and television as forms of media. Now, with the exponential  growth of the internet, traditional forms of sharing content have evolved. We now have “new media” and “online broadcasting, ” as platforms for producing and distributing content.

Many sites allow you to post content , and more being created as we speak..  For the visual video format known as streaming media most people have seen YouTube. YouTube has more than 1 billion videos online in a month. Recently in the news Current TV had press after former President Bill Clinton helped secure the release of one of their reporters.

Before we start with the tweaks to speed up slow streaming video, lets get a basic understanding of streaming video technology in order to stop choppy video. Streaming video is a prerecorded video files that can be distributed as part of a live broadcast “feed.” The video signal is converted into a compressed digital signal and transmitted from a Web server. This server is able to be multicast the same file to multiple users at the same time. When you click on the on the video it is partially loaded before you can access it. This is known as “buffering”. This helps you to load and play the video instantaneously. Now lets take a look on how to cut down on buffering time, stop slow streaming video and eliminate choppy PC video playback

The internet’s potential of reaping the benefits through streaming media is now being tested by many companies and audio and video clippings through different mediums are uploaded and updated on a regular basis by the think tanks of the company. But a lot of streaming media on the internet goes unnoticed simply because most of the net surfers may not be aware on how to look for them. The question thus arises on how to improve the visibility of the audio or video files to millions of surfers that use search engines for accessing information.