Data Streaming

Video Streaming technology provides ultimate comfort of watching a video while it downloads. This means that there is no need to download the full movie, which is of course a great relief for low-bandwidth users. This process called streaming is done as two stages. Firstly the movie frames were created and were put on a server, which digitize and compress the frames. The compression process could also be called as encoding. Then the compressed movie is stored in a media server which acts as the base for the movie, from which the user will request movie clips for viewing.
The streaming data (either audio or video) will be relayed as and when requested or as a live relay. In case of live relay, both the media server and the compression process at the encoding server needs to be extremely fast, so that no delay in frame relay occurs.