Due to quality issues caused by low bandwidth and bad latency, very little streaming video existed on the World Wide Web until 2002 when VHS quality video with reliable lip sync became possible. Some sites, like Newgrounds, heavily rely on these container formats to display online video. Several container formats for streaming the first videos are released.
The development of the discrete cosine transform (DCT) lossy compression method leads to the first practical video formats, H.261 and MPEG, initially used for online video conferencing.Įarly days of the World Wide Web. Key developments in online video web sightĭevelopment of practical video coding standards. This is a timeline of online video, meaning streaming media delivered over the Internet.
