That's not the general case, however. That's a set of specialized videos where you know you will have a large number of consumers at each site viewing the same video content.
Owen On Feb 11, 2013, at 20:46 , Ryan Malayter <malay...@gmail.com> wrote: > You're missing the entire point: all web caches *already* work with > DASH and the proprietary HTTP chunking flavors. It's just HTTP > request/response > data. > > My employer's statistics show this to be true; we do video for > compliance training > and we see massive benefit from local caches in our customer's > networks. We send a cache-enabled customer site each video chunk just > about once on average, and their cache takes care of distribution to > up to thousands of internal viewers. > > HTTP chunk streaming works today with Silverlight/Flash/Quicktime > plugins, and there is a working prototype of the standardized DASH > that use only an modern web browser and JavaScript with no plug-ins: > http://dash-mse-test.appspot.com/dash-player.html
