[android-developers] Re: HTTP progressive streaming

2010-07-16 Thread Indicator Veritatis
That is not the only difference. When people use the terminology correctly and follow the distinctions correctly, we also see that media streaming is fully seekable while progressively downloaded media is not. Also, they have different performance characteristics under low bandwidth conditions

[android-developers] Re: HTTP progressive streaming

2010-07-15 Thread Dave Sparks
Progressive streaming is like progressive download except that the media file is partially cached in memory rather than writing to permanent storage. On Jul 13, 1:21 pm, Michel m.co...@nfb.ca wrote: On top of that my question is what is HTTP progressive streaming standing for? Is that a nick

[android-developers] Re: HTTP progressive streaming

2010-07-14 Thread jsdf
I can't comment on all of the options you give below, but I can assure you it is not HTTP Live Streaming (HLS). Oh, having that in the network stack would be grand. On Jul 13, 3:21 pm, Michel m.co...@nfb.ca wrote: On top of that my question is what is HTTP progressive streaming standing for?