- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 07:31:34 +1100
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 <gazhay at gmail.com> 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 <st at isoc.nl> 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 > >
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