Video Streaming: Streaming Video for Your Website


by Nicholas Tan - Date: 2008-11-19 - Word Count: 501 Share This!

When considering streaming video for your website, you need to look at all the different ways in which a person can benefit from either viewing or offering streaming video.  This is a very popular method of being able to view information and videos on the internet, and there are many reasons for this.  While some people offer the ability to download certain materials and video clips from their website, other people are able to offer streaming video from their website in order to help capture the attention of the individuals that are interested in viewing it.  First of all, an individual can take up less memory on their website by offering streaming videos.

Offering individuals to download your videos from your website may cause the site to run slower if many people are downloading all at once.  When a site or a video is especially popular, this is a good thing when it comes to the video, but it could be a negative thing when it comes to the website from which the video is available.  However, this is not the only way in which an individual is able to benefit and proper from being able to offer streaming video from their website to the viewers of the website.  More benefits are in store for these individuals, as well as for the individuals that are able to utilize the website for their viewing pleasure.

Streaming video takes up less time when it comes to playing the material in most instances, so many people prefer it to downloading the material.  Streaming video for your website can be played almost immediately, much like an individual can turn on their television and see the channels immediately.  There are some times in which an individual will need to wait very momentarily in order to watch the video simply because the media player and the host server need to establish a connection, and then the video needs to be buffered, but then it can be played quite easily.  Meanwhile, the process of downloading a video can take a longer amount of time since the individual will not be able to play the video at all until it is completely downloaded and the individual has located the file on their computer.  Depending on a person's connection to the internet, the time of this process will vary greatly.

However, compared to streaming video it is in most cases slower than the streaming video is when it is offered on a website.  As a result, there are many people that are interested in being offered the chance to view streaming video off of a website as opposed to being able to download a video off of a website and then having to find the file and play it from another media player.  It is much less complicated to just play the file on the website, and it often takes much less time to complete this action when compared to the other available options of viewing or playing a particular video or file.


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