What are streaming audio and streaming video? How have they altered the use of audio and video on the internet?
Streaming audio is a format of listening to sound clips from the internet that allow the audio to come in through a continuous flow or stream. Other forms of download such as WAV or MP3’s require one to download the entire sound clip first before allowing you to listen to the sound clip. With streaming audio, you can listen to the sound clip as it is coming in, and it does not permanently save to your computer. RealOne Player uses this technology, and you can listen to online concerts and some online radio stations as well. However, if your computer does not have RealOne player, you may have to download it before you can listen to the sound clips. Streaming audio is really a nice alternative to downloading an entire sound clip, because you do not have to wait for the entire file to download before listening to it. You can listen to it after a mere few seconds. For our class, our pod casts uses this streaming audio feature.
Similar to streaming audio is streaming video. Videos are nice because rather than just listening to sound, you can watch what is going on as well. However, the main thing that most people dislike with watching videos online is that they can take a long time to download, because the file sizes can be very large. With streaming video, you watch the video as it is downloading. There is no need to wait for the entire file to download to your computer before watching it. However, on the downside is that the videos can be somewhat choppy or fuzzy if there is a lot of people downloading from that site at the same time.
The ways that streaming audio and video have changed the ways that people use audio and video on the internet is that people no longer have to download music completely to listen to it or download an entire movie file. People can go to Yahoo music and listen to music online without downloading it to their computer (by paying for it legally, of course), or watch a music video online without having to download it to their computer. Educators can capitalize on this concept as well. They can go to educational sites and show educational videos to their students, and not have to spend class time waiting for the video to download, or spend their planning period trying to get the file clip to download to a CD or DVD. They can instantly show the file in class with little wait and show the students that day’s lesson from the internet.
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Streaming audio and video are yet another great educational resource. One great example is unitedstreaming.com, where there are hundreds of videos available to assist teachers in instruction on a variety of subjects.
This was very informative, i never knew this about streaming audio. But this video has come a long way. The fact that you can download video that is clear to see than it was ten years ago
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