On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Jeroen Wijering <[email protected]> wrote: > We are getting some questions from JW Player users that HTML5 video is quite > wasteful on bandwidth for longer videos (think 10min+). This because browsers > download the entire movie once playback starts, regardless of whether a user > pauses the player. If throttling is used, it seems very conservative, which > means a lot of unwatched video is in the buffer when a user unloads a video.
A lot of people are complaining about this right now, and it needs to be addressed, but nothing I've seen makes it clear that it's a spec issue rather than QoI. I.e., will this still be a problem once all browsers reliably implement preload="" and iron our their video fetch behavior a bit more? Are non-Mozilla browsers working on preload=""?
