What technology does online video viewing use?

Using streaming media technology. Streaming media refers to a media format that is played continuously in real time on the network by using streaming media technology, such as audio, video or multimedia files. Streaming media technology is also called streaming media technology. The so-called streaming media technology is to compress continuous image and sound information and put it on the website server.

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The traditional download method has a long delay, because audio and video files are generally large and need a lot of storage capacity. At the same time, due to the limitation of network bandwidth, downloading a file is very time-consuming. Depending on the size of the file, it may often take several minutes or even hours. This method not only wastes download time and hard disk space, but also is very inconvenient to use.

After the emergence of streaming media technology, people can "click to watch" and play multimedia files while downloading, which not only greatly shortens the startup delay, but also does not need too much cache capacity, greatly reducing the online waiting time of users and enhancing the interactivity.

Streaming media technology is not a single technology, it is an organic combination of network technology and video/audio technology. To realize streaming media technology on the network, it is necessary to solve the problems of production, release, transmission and playback of streaming media, and these problems need to be solved by using video and audio technology and network technology.