so please test as it's true :)
I did test it and indeed it looks that way...
OK
actually youtube player does not throttle at all - just load as fast as
possible into memory while playing at normal speed.
Yes but we are now discussing another service here. Imho there is some
difference between downloading (and viewing) by HTTP or viewing a YouTube
movie thru a YouTube site (and watching a Flash movie instead). Do you mean
that providing any movie in Flash format will have the same advantages as it
has viewing such a file thru a YouTube server?
exactly. you may make a webpage with just link to the movie(s) somewhere,
maybe some selector, preview images, whatever you like.
it's just matter of that difference.
you too may write some javascript/whatever program that will set up the
movie playing in the right place on screen, provide stop/start/rev/fd
(i'm imprecise as i know little of "modern" web/java/javascript
programming :).
That's what youtube do, AND do extra effort to lower bandwidth efficiency
by preventing caching and storing files ;) possibly because of copyright
reasons as someone pointed out. More probably for some other reason, as
most files on youtube are just users amateur videos not copyrighted
restricted material - while youtube prevent caching everything.
There will be no practical difference between playing from FTP/HTTP and
this.
realplayer do the same thing, and supports both URL's and "live" streaming
protocol.
So it would be better to forget my issue and rely on the smart settings of
the client's movieplayer?
exactly! or - if you like "cool" webpage interface just make that webpage
similarly to youtube and provide just link with "Play" to your movies.
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