The difference between streaming and non-streaming is artificial and not technically necessary - except for life content, where you cannot jump "into the future".
Silvia. On 3/23/07, Gareth Hay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In this case, there is a big difference between streamed data, which can be played from various positions, and non-streamed data which requires a complete download, or at least the start of the file. Perhaps there should be some reflection of this in the tag? On 23 Mar 2007, at 03:15, liorean wrote: > On 23/03/07, Sander Tekelenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> While that might be useful, it's not at all obvious to me that it >> is a >> *requirement*. What is so wrong with fetching the entire file, and >> start >> playing it at the point referenced by the fragment identifier? >> That's how >> fragment identifiers work for textual resources (and they fetch >> the usual >> truckload of images along with the HTML file). > > Well, it would be nice to not have to download an hour long lecture to > see the 30 second interval of interest starting at at 47:26... > However, as I understand the Ogg Theora format, it contains essential > data for decoding in the start of the file, so unless the server has > some format specific knowledge and handling the client must either > have already gotten that information somehow, or must request the > entire file. I have no idea whether the other codecs I've heard > discussed (Dirac and H.264) have a similar issue or not. > -- > David "liorean" Andersson
