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Streaming technology has made listening to music or watching movies online - visit the next site - movies on the web as easy as turning on the radio or TV. Here is how the technology works.
The first music and movie files you might find on the net were just short clips because you had to download the entire file before you could play it. At present, conversely, you may start playing the file as soon as the first bytes begin to arrive... thanks to streaming.
This immediacy is possible because streaming does not send files online the same way as many other files are sent. It uses a different protocol.
A protocol is a set of rules defining how two computers connect with each other and just how they send each other data.
Most data that is sent throughout the internet is first broken up into packets (small blocks of data). The packets are sent separately and are the rejoined at their destination in order that the receiver gets the whole file.
The sending of most data via the internet is governed by a set of rules called the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). Streaming however uses the User Database Protocol (UDP).
These two protocols are quite different. The crucial difference is in how they check for errors.
If one packet gets damaged when downloading will be controlled by TCP, downloading will be suspended while that packet is resent. That way, after the download has been completed, you can make certain that you have the whole data file.
When you are streaming files, on the other hand, UDP allows packets to get lost now and then without interrupting the downloading. This really is fine because, when an occasional packet is lost, you are unlikely to notice any interruption to the music or movie. But if everything froze very briefly while a lost packet was being resent, you probably would notice the interruption.
With streaming technology, you don't have to wait for files to be downloaded entirely before you decide to can begin listening to audio or watching a video. You can listen to a concert on the additional side of the world in real time, make a video call or watch a film just like on tv.
Streaming video works in a similar way to streaming audio, except that the video must be split into its separate audio and video components when it is in the buffer within the RAM.
The server that holds the video for streaming may have a video capture expansion card which will capture either a live feed from a video camera or a pre-recorded video. The capture board turns the analogue signals it receives into digital data and compresses it.
At the exact same time, it employs a trick in order to avoid having to capture more data than it needs so that you can make transmission easier.
When the camera used to record the video is stationary, ie, it's not panning, the amount of data created can be reduced. This could be done because all moving images are made up of a series of frames (still images) that change in rapid succession to provide the illusion of continuous movement. The rate is generally 30 frames a second which gives the video a smooth look.
The compression system reduces the number of frames needed by comparing adjacent frames and only taking account of pixels that change from one frame to another. It does this by establishing just what the background looks like.
As long as the camera remains still, only the changes in the frame, such as the movement of the actors, have to be transmitted. The background only must be transmitted again once the camera starts to pan and the background changes.
Video streaming may also skip frames when your Internet link is slow, which may make the video jerky. Thus the faster your connection, the smoother the video will be.
When your computer receives the video signals, it will decompress them and load them in to a small buffer in RAM as it does for audio.
At this point the signals are split into separate video and audio components that are sent to the video card and sound card respectively, whence they may be output to your monitor and speakers so you can watch the movie and hear the sound-track.
