This study is an initial effort to determine the best way to deliver rich educational data such as video materials over cloud computing environment. Cloud computing has been widely applied in various fields of business and private sector to simplify complexity of data management and networking. It also drew attention in educational institutions to improve the existing services of e-learning by adopting cloud technology. However, delivering rich educational content within a mesh network commonly influenced by bandwidth, jitter and loss of data which sometimes significantly reduces its quality at end user side. In dealing with the issues, several smart video schemes have been proposed to improve video streaming quality. The approaches look the issue from different perspectives and use variety of methods to produce the so called smart video streaming scheme as mentioned in literature. This study aims to explore state of the art on smart video streaming schemes and organize them into particular groups. It is expected that the effort will not only beneficial for next steps in the research but will also help other readers better understand advancement in the field as well as indentifying particular gaps where other researchers could contribute in the future.