What is a media streamer?

http://bestmediastreamers.com/what-are-media-streamers/ The term “media streamers” has been cropping up on computer sites. It’s being used to describe all network media players. Yet this seems like an incomplete explanation. We might be better served generating a distinction between the media-playing function as well as media-streaming characteristic. The difference begins with downloading versus streaming media.

Media is streamed when the movie, music or picture file is actually stored outside of the media-playing system. The media plays the file from its source location.

You can either stream media from

Web based places – that may be, websites like Netflix, Hulu, Pandora, Flickr