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Isn't streaming live video? It seems to me that youtube is exactly in archival video and hardly in streaming. But it's a big site so maybe a lot of people use i
by fnord123 6y ago
Isn't streaming live video? It seems to me that youtube is exactly in archival video and hardly in streaming. But it's a big site so maybe a lot of people use it in ways I don't know.
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- mulmen 6y agoStreaming is not exclusively live video. Streaming is viewing the file as it downloads. As a stream. The alternative is what we did in the dark ages. Download the entire file before beginning playback.
- fnord123 6y agoEven in the dark ages (e.g. '97) we could watch the fragment of the avi videos as they downloaded.
- mulmen 6y ago‘97 is classic antiquity. The dark ages came later, after civilization fell. We obtained WMVs from Kazaa because that’s all that was left.
- kevinhq 6y agodamn. then I've been living through those ages. I feel old.
- richardfey 6y agoFrom what I remember WMVs were mostly fake so I would never download them
- michaelmrose 6y agoWMVs can embed instructions on where to grab codecs or authorization to play the content in the multimedia. Back in the day if you played WMV with windows media player this could be used to pwn your computer.
- xdavidliu 6y agoI myself preferred realplayer ("buffering...") and its more advanced cousin realplayer G2.