HCI 201 Fall 1999: Streaming Media

HCI 201 Multimedia and the World Wide Web

Technology developed by Real Networks.
Provides the ability to have "real-time" audio and video through the web.
File begins to play while the sound/movie still downloading in chunks.
To compensate for slower connections, video quality will be sacrificed to maintain real-time playback of the audio track.
Streaming media are dependent on continuous access to the server from which the files are coming.
Examples of Real Networks' streaming media can be found at Digital Frontier Conference '99.