Video on-demand

When video is stored and the played by request it said to be on-demand. The majority of the video on the web today is prerecorded on-demand material. When video is stored it can be regarded as content rather then a broadcast and thus can be categorized an linked in a more complex manner.

On-demand video can use as means of delivery both true media server streaming and progressive download. For video on-demand also more complex codecs can be used as the video can be “prepared” and edited before publishing.

All video sharing services work with on-demand video and the service is provided by nearly all video hosting services too.

Video on demand is commonly used in:

• video sharing
• video blogs (vlogs)
• any pre-recorded video content on websites
• video presentations
• web cinema