Samizdata - 5:33 pm on Mar 31, 2012 (gmt 0)

My (limited) understanding of this is that if you don't serve it as a stream, users will have to download the whole thing before they get to view it

No, that is certainly not the case.

A couple of seconds of buffering is all that is required for "progressive download" over a standard broadband connection, and you watch while the rest downloads.

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