With the development of science and technology and the popularity of the Internet, streaming media technology has gradually become an important tool in college English teaching. Streaming media technology is a technology to transmit audio, video and other multimedia content through the network. With the rapid development of Internet, streaming media technology has been widely used in the field of education. The goal of college English teaching is to cultivate students' English communication ability and cross-cultural communication ability, and streaming media technology can provide diverse and interactive learning resources and learning environment for English teaching. Therefore, this paper aims to study the application and combination of streaming media technology in college English teaching, so as to carry out college English teaching research based on streaming media technology.