Russ wrote: > > Other then being able to seek within the stream, are there any other > benefits of streaming vs progressive download that I'm not seeing? >
When I was looking into this, I came across this article which discussed the differences: http://www.streamingmedia.com/article.asp?id=8456&page=1 Basically, it came down to the fact that we were also doing short videos (generally under a minute), and the users would generally be watching the whole thing through without the need to skip forward...so streaming had no real advantage over the progressive download. The buffering in the windows media player and the fat pipe on the host end basically meant the file started playing almost the second after you clicked on it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:256920 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
