On 17.04.2010 09:36, Robert O'Callahan wrote:
This is an implementation issue rather than a spec issue. It's basically
just because of the way the Firefox network cache works. When we play an
Ogg video we generally don't download the data in a single continuous
HTTP GET; if the server supports byte Range requests, we actually seek
to various places in the stream at different times to fetch metadata
etc. So the network cache never sees a request that returns the complete
resource, and never caches it. We do have a special "media cache" that's
good at caching fetched media data, but "Save As" doesn't know about the
media cache. We could fix that, but it would be somewhat complex and to
be honest it's probably not worth it.
> ...
Rob,
related question: do you do the partial GET only for getting access to
metadata, or are you also using it for seeking in the video? (As opposed
to downloading it once into the media cache, and then use that content
throughout?)
Best regards, Julian
