What is streaming media? What kind do you have?

Streaming media refers to the technology and process of compressing a series of media data, sending them in segments on the Internet, and transmitting audio and video on the Internet instantly for viewing. This technology enables data packets to be sent like water. If you don't use this technology, you must download the entire media file before using it.

Streaming media types are:

1, RA: real-time sound.

2.RM: Real-time media of real-time video or audio.

3.RT: real-time text.

4.RP: real-time image.

5.SMIL: Synchronize multi-data type integration design files.

6.SWF:macromedia's real flash and shockwave flash animation files.

7. rpm: a plug-in for HTML files.

8.RAM: The metafile of streaming media is a text file containing the file addresses (URL addresses) of RA, RM and SMIL.

9.CSF: A file format similar to a media container, which can contain multiple media formats, not just audio and video.

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The rapid development and popularization of the Internet provides a strong market power for the development of the increasingly popular streaming media business. Streaming media technology is widely used in all aspects of Internet information services such as multimedia news release, online live broadcast, online advertising, e-commerce, video on demand, distance education, telemedicine, network broadcasting, real-time video conference, etc.

The application of streaming media technology has brought revolutionary changes to network information exchange and will have a far-reaching impact on people's work and life. A complete streaming media solution should be the perfect integration of related software and hardware, including content acquisition, video and audio acquisition and compression coding, content editing, content storage and playback, content management and publishing of application servers and user management.

Baidu encyclopedia-streaming media

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