Streaming is the best method for broadcasting live events, enabling global audiences to watch or listen in real time (find out more about Neuraplex Live Streaming here). Apart from live streaming this is perfect for delivering "on-demand" media. It enables instant playing of media content and allows users to jump to any future point in the video or audio without needing to worry about how much of the file has already been downloaded to the browser. You can also configure your streaming distributions to use dynamic bit-rate streaming. When enabled, this feature lets you store multiple copies of the same video, each encoded at different quality levels. Your distribution will then automatically adjust the quality of your video based on the speed of the end user’s internet connection.

And unlike other content delivery methods, streaming players don’t leave behind a file. Once the file is watched, it can’t be shared or replayed offline — crucial for scenarios such as pay-per-view, movie rentals or distribution of proprietary information.

Streaming distributions support the wide variety of file formats that can be played using Flash. Among the supported formats are the popular FLV and MP4 media container file formats and the VP6 and H.264 video codecs.

Streaming distributions are designed to give you high performance, reliable delivery of your content. Streaming distributions use all the edge locations in the Neuraplex Content Delivery Network, so your content is streamed from a server that is close to your end users.