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| Dec 1, 2015 at 17:06 | comment | added | user186205 | The intention of a character stream is that the data is consumed more-or-less as it is produced: it is a flow of data rather than a means of holding it. We know that this is not perfect in practice, but from a metaphorical standpoint it is expected to be true: the reader can process the stream as fast as it comes in. | |
| May 25, 2013 at 14:29 | comment | added | JBRWilkinson | Yeah, HTTP streaming does that. I meant video calling which is point-to-point and the data isn't pre-encoded. My bad - I should've been explicit. | |
| May 24, 2013 at 11:20 | comment | added | mouviciel | @JBRWilkinson - In adaptative video streaming, the server just sends multiple variants of a stream at different bit rates. This is still the responsibility of the client to choose among these streams. | |
| May 24, 2013 at 10:17 | comment | added | JBRWilkinson | In adaptive video streaming, the server will adjust to a lower fidelity stream because the client isn't keeping up. | |
| May 24, 2013 at 7:47 | history | answered | mouviciel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |