On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Steve Jolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Crossland wrote: > > On 12/03/2008, Phil Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> FWIW I still can't get the mp4 to stream rather than download. > >> Anyone? > > > > My guess is that the proprietary player on the iPhone just buffers > > part of the HTTP GET data and starts playing away? :-) > > That's how the iPhone is doing it (and the Flash player, and all the > other network media players that support progressive downloads), yes. > Obviously progressive downloads and streaming are very different things, > but in the domain of Internet video, the former seem to be meeting a lot > of users' requirements at the moment.
The Flash player wasn't - it was using RTMP, which enables the client to feed back about bandwidth to maintain a stream quality that the client can handle and also to skip to any point without downloading the preceding file contents. I'm sure you knew this - just clarifying. Iain - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
