The technology for receiving audio and video over the Internet is developing rapidly. We recipients have to learn to work with this new, unfamiliar, and often frustating technology, which is unresponsive to our needs as persons. Regular sound and video information is encoded as computer files and transmitted over the Internet like any other file. Depending on how an audio or video file is constructed, it must be transferred in toto to a recipient's computer before it is heard or viewed, or it can be heard or viewed as it is transmitted, which is called streaming audio or streaming video .
Special software is required to play streaming audio and video.
Listen while you surf the web, write patient notes, etc. In other words, multitask. These tend to occur because too many recipients are demanding the material at the same time or transmission on the Internet is clogged for some reason. If you see these messages, try clicking on the source's link again, and if that doesn't work, come back later.