Re: [freenet-devl] streaming media on freenet

[Scott G. Miller]

> I'm not particularly planning on implementing it. But if the capability
> to ask the network for a particular byte range in a file (instead of the
> whole file) were to be implemented then it would have to go in the
> protocol as part of the request message.
This isn't likely to happen except at the FCP layer.  The problem with
this is that its not clear how you'd cache a byte range.  Freenet needs to
operate on indivisible (atomic) chunks of data.

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