Video in the Web 2.0

This Bachelor work deals with video, Web 2.0 and their reciprocal relation. Whereas it is a very complex topic the first chapter focuses on introduction to the issue of video, characteristics of video and connected technologies. It deals with conceptions as data stream, resolution, colour, depth of colour, interleaving, compression, multimedia containers and so on. There is a brief comment on issues of audio compression at the end of the first chapter. The second chapter follows video and Web 2.0 interconnection where the intersection of video and the internet is described and consequently there is a transition to the conception of Web 2.0 and its historical delimitation and definition. The notion of streaming occurs there for the first time there and is further analysed on a network layer as well as on an application layer. The last third chapter deals with social aspects of streaming services as YouTube, Stream.cz and others. This chapter tries through the pondering to refer to the fact that streaming services are not determinate by only technological elements but also social effects which act on users of these services