What is the difference between web downloading and web streaming and psuedo web streaming?
For example, a fantastic site that has legal written and audio databases available at no charge is the U.S. Supreme Court OYEZ database at http://oyez.at.nwu.edu/oyez.html. In addition to the text of Supreme Court decisions, oral arguments are available in over 750 hours of real audio streamed across the WWW. The most common way to execute media files (audio and video) is to download those files into a local computer and then launch a plug-in or applications program to execute the media file in question. Users have an option of saving the files, although the usual default condition is only to store the file temporarily. Web streaming is quite different. In that case audio or video files play in real time without having to wait for full downloads of the files. In general, web streaming playback is of lower quality than download playback, but streaming avoids downloading interruptions and the need for storage space in a local computer. However, these are not mutually exclusive options. S
