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Video streaming has taken the world by storm in recent years. Be it in entertainment, education, brand building, customer engagement, or customer support. Video increases the chances of a prospective customeru2019s purchase by 40% and 96% of people watch a video to understand a product or service. In this article, we are going to discuss everything you need to know about how to start a video streaming business.<br><br>
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Introduction • Video streaming has taken the world by storm in recent years. Be it in entertainment, education, brand building, customer engagement, or customer support. • Video increases the chances of a prospective customer’s purchase by 40% and 96% of people watch a video to understand a product or service.
What Is Video Streaming? • Streaming video content from a physical or virtual server to a user’s device using the internet is termed video streaming. Online video streaming platform is a continuous process wherein the audio and video are transmitted for an optimized user experience. Streaming Online Video offers an uninterrupted viewing experience. • During data transmission, content is sent in a compressed format to the user’s device. The user requires a video player (it can be online or offline) to uncompress the video and get it ready for watching. In online video streaming, the video streaming platform that the user uses uncompresses the audio, video, and text files.
How Does Video Streaming Works? • Recorded video is stored on a cloud server by the streaming a video service provider. When a user clicks on a video in the online video player, the cloud server receives the request to transmit video content to the user’s device. The video file is broken down into streaming audio and video data packets containing bite-sized data.
A transmission protocol like User Datagram Protocol (UDP) or Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is made use of to transmit data over a network. It is essential for the user to have a high internet speed for data to be transmitted easily so that the video can be watched without any buffering. If the user opts to watch the video at a lower quality, medium-speed internet is sufficient. But for high-quality videos, high speed is mandatory, failing which the transmission of data will be interrupted which in turn affects the user experience.