On Oct 19, 2014, at 5:16 AM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 1) Buffer the whole file into memory, and allow seeking anywhere within the 
> area that's been buffered.
> 
> This sounds awful, but we actually have to buffer the whole file into memory 
> currently on Safari anyway -- I'm kind of banking on most videos being 
> short-ish and loading relatively low-resolution files that aren't too huge. :(
> 
> Adding seeking on top of that shouldn't be super hard, I just haven't gotten 
> to it yet.
> 
> 
> 2) Break up the files into a manifest and small chunks (as with WebM-DASH or 
> Apple's HTTP Live Streaming) that can be individually loaded.
> 
> With chunked files, we could seek by jumping to a different chunk and picking 
> up where needed in the stream. This would require more infrastructure work, 
> including generation of files. Sounds hard.
> 
> 
> Soo....... I'll probably do number 1) at some point. :)

We can’t do http range requests against the ogg index byte / time mappings ?  

—michael
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