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My web host says I can do streaming video with my account. Do I have streaming capability?

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Most likely, no.

Over 90% of the time we are asked this and look into it, we find that the web host is not operating a streaming video server. What they typically support is "progressive download". Your videos are thrown on the same web server as your web pages and images. When you view the video you are actually downloading the video. You cannot jump immediately to the end of the clip because you have not downloaded the whole clip yet.

Our streaming video accounts allow you to transmit video using RTSP-UDP and RTSP-TCP, which are communication standards that were designed strictly for streaming video and audio. When you use your web hosting account for video, you will only be able to transmit video using HTTP-TCP progressive download. HTTP-TCP P.D. was designed for web pages, not streaming video.



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