On more than one occasion, I completely forgot I was streaming video rather than watching a file stored on my iPad.

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Muxlim.com is trying to tap into a parallel market with a site that offers file-sharing, streaming video, search and social networking, all for a Muslim audience.

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Streaming video, which enables the viewer to play a file that resides on a remote server, was believed to be a less desirable method of delivery, because the picture quality was often inferior.

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The issue is an Adobe software called Flash, which does many things, most notably letting Web surfers view streaming video inside a browser window. (As opposed to downloading the file and then playing it with something like Windows Media Player.) For a long time, this was the easiest way for Web sites to deliver video, and Flash has been almost universally adopted.

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