As a final note, streaming video/music is also used in a bid to stop theft and illegal
copying of the media. Though there is software out there that enables you to download the
streamed file and save it on your computer.
Also, I am (like most of us here) old enough to remember SW/MW/LW/FM radio's. Kinda
fun being able to listen to european radio stations, but finding them (and getting the
"white noise" to a minimum) was tricky.
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk
Patrick Finnegan <pat at computer-refuge.org> wrote: On Thursday 28 February 2008
04:38, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
"Streaming" tends to imply no disk cache copy, more like listening
to a radio station...
What difference does it make where it's being buffered? The behavior
of the process in either case is identical.
If you're streaming, the buffer is usually just enough to filter out
network timing issues, not downloading the entire content so that you
can play/rewind/fast forward/etc. Like I said, like listening to a
radio station (perhaps I should add "on an old AM/FM radio":).
Pat
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