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Streaming media refers to multimedia delivered through a network for playback using a media player.Media is transferred in a stream of packets from a server to a client and is rendered in real-time; [1] this contrasts with file downloading, a process in which the end-user obtains an entire media file before consuming the content.
The most popular video hosting website is YouTube, 2 billion active until October 2020 and the most extensive catalog of online videos. [1] There are some countries in the world placing restrictions on YouTube , instead having their own regional video-sharing websites in its place.
WebM is an audiovisual media file format. [5] It is primarily intended to offer a royalty-free alternative to use in the HTML video and the HTML audio elements. It has a sister project, WebP, for images. The development of the format is sponsored by Google, and the corresponding software is distributed under a BSD license.
youtube-dl <url> The path of the output can be specified as: (file name to be included in the path) youtube-dl -o <path> <url> To see the list of all of the available file formats and sizes: youtube-dl -F <url> The video can be downloaded by selecting the format code from the list or typing the format manually: youtube-dl -f <format/code> <url>
All services support the following input file formats: Moving Picture Experts Group (.MPG/MPEG-1) QuickTime File Format (.MOV) Windows Media Video (.WMV) Audio Video Interleave (.AVI) H.264 MPEG-4/AVC (.MP4) Unless otherwise indicated, they also support the following input file formats: Matroska Multimedia Container (.MKV) Theora (.OGV)
All modern browsers will play video (Theora and WebM) and audio (Vorbis and MP3) files from Wikipedia, no modifications needed. On older iOS, iPadOS, and macOS devices, software decoding will be used. This might be a bit slow compared to what you are used to on such devices. Internet Explorer is NOT supported.
ClipGrab is a donationware [2] video download manager, allowing the download of videos from a variety of websites such as YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion or Facebook.It has been praised for its user-friendliness, but also flagged as malware by security software.
All devices with software audio decoding that are supported by Rockbox, including older revisions of iPod, can also play Musepack files. Playback on Roku Photobridge HD is supported with a plugin. There is a plethora of media players for Android supporting Musepack (among them is the ported Rockbox media player).