so streaming they view automatically without waiting?
First don't top post.
Your answer:
Streaming video is a sequence of "moving images" that are sent in
compressed form over the Internet and displayed by the viewer as they
arrive. Streaming media is streaming video with sound. With streaming
video or streaming media, a Web user does not have to wait to download a
large file before seeing the video or hearing the sound. Instead, the
media is sent in a continuous stream and is played as it arrives. The
user needs a player, which is a special program that uncompresses and
sends video data to the display and audio data to speakers. A player can
be either an integral part of a browser or downloaded from the software
maker's Web site.
(from:
http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid7
_gci213055,00.html)
when a video is embedded in a web page, is it streaming or it as nothing to
do with streaming.
Nothing to do with streaming.
Streaming and non-streaming confuses me.
If download faster than you see it, you are streaming. Makes no
difference if it is from a file or a live feed.
does all format such as .mov .avi .wmv .mpeg support streaming.
In what you use to think of as streaming no, in what streaming really is
yes.
And which format will give me the best optimisation in terms of quality and
weight.
Totally depends on the video, and what you want to do with it. If you
are serious about offering video on your site, then you better not be
worried about physical file size. We have several servers dedicated to
nothing by video clips. All of the above formats you mentioned are
good. If you are offering a combination of mov, wmv, and rm you will
reach virtually every customer out there. The encoders for all three
are free, and almost every fire-wire card comes with free software to
save in all the formats.
So far from what i have read on the web is that quick time is the best
choice for combability, supported by Netscape and IE.
So is real, so is wmv, and avi, and.....
Now if im correct , netscape, mozilla uses plugin and IE uses Active X to
play the video.
Yep, 80%+ of the world's browsers use ActiveX components out of the box,
the other 20% use a plugin for the ActiveX component (that is usually
included anyway)
Complex video manipulation via javascript is more complex with some
browsers and plugins, because of live connect. But virtually everything
can be done on both.
Does it affects the video quality?
No that does not effect quality