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Originally Posted by sperry
Unless you're running a RM or Flash server or something, you're not streaming it. If someone attempts to play it directly off the link, it's the equivalent of downloading it to a temp folder, then playing it.
Streaming implies something other than just an HTTP connection, no? ...since they're pulling it from your web server, it's an HTTP download whether or not it's being saved to disk, or saved to disk while playing.
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True enough, but to technical for most. I just don't want people bitching about my server performance when IE/Media Player tries to DL, buffer and play in real time as I believe it will try to do... On my machine FF just sort of hangs while it tries to load the large files...