MMS streams

[Dotan Cohen]

On 19/07/07, Lee Tambiah <leetambiah at ossgeeks.co.uk> wrote:
> On 7/18/07, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Flash video cannot jump to position of parts that have not yet
> > downloaded. So to see the last five minutes of a lecture, one must
> > download the whole lecture.
> >
> > Dotan Cohen
>
> I think it can if it is streamed with a macromedia streaming server, its
> just sites such as you-tube use progressive downloads. There is nothing
> flash video cant do that your windows media streaming can do. Also flash
> movies are so much smaller in size. Also if they had a real streaming server
> it would be the same too.

On this system (Ubuntu 7.04 with Firfox 2.0.0.4) I cannot skip to the
end of a YouTube video until it finishes downloading. In the video's
position bar, one can see until what point in a video one can skip to
as the bar changes colour from left to right. Thus, the whole video
must download in order to view the end. In MMS technology, one can
skip right to the end, instantly, much as if the file were local.

Dotan Cohen

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