It has become increasingly easy to incorporate video into any digital document.
New tools create new opportunities for multimedia Web publishing.
This article describes the steps in the process. Streaming media came about in response to the problem of bandwidth-greedy audio and video files. Streaming media opens the door for many multimedia applications via the Internet that were impossible without the process. Audio and video on a wide-variety of subjects from sports to business to news to entertainment can be found online. BBC, CBS, Comedy Central, MTV, Rolling Stone, C-SPAN, Sony, ESPN, NHL, and National Public Radio are but a few.