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流媒体协议(Streaming Protocol for Live Broadcasting)
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流媒体(Streaming Media)指多媒体数据不断由流媒体服务器发送岛客户端，而客户端不需要将整个多媒体数据下载完成就可以开始播放的多媒体。这种流媒体技术本质上是将媒体数据通过分段来发送，由于客户端是接收到片段就可以开始播放，所以极大提高了多媒体播放的效率。

参考
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- `Video Streaming Protocols: 6 Preferred Formats for Professional Broadcasting <https://www.dacast.com/blog/video-streaming-protocol/>`_
- `Streaming Protocols: Everything You Need to Know <https://www.wowza.com/blog/streaming-protocols>`_
- `Video streaming protocols explained: RTMP, WebRTC, FTL, SRT <https://restream.io/blog/streaming-protocols/>`_