Comments on: Flash Video: Streaming vs. Progressive Download

By: Richard Davies

Richard Davies — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 22:02:04 +0000

It appears that Adobe has removed Chris Hock’s article. Here is a cached version of the article from the Wayback Machine:

http://web.archive.org/web/20090220052009/http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/video_guide_02.html

By: Juanjo Haro

Juanjo Haro — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:44:11 +0000

Hi… very interesting article… I have a question related to the video playback in Internet.

Is any way to load a video in the background while another video is playing / buffering to avoid delays between the end of one video and the beginning of another one? Or this is not posible?

I’m looking for some tutorials or a flash video player capable of this.

Thanks for the article and thanks for the help.

Juanjo Haro

By: Vikrant

Vikrant — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:36:33 +0000

Hi,

The article has been useful. Thanks a lot!

Regards,
Vikrant Barse

By: kathita

kathita — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:01:54 +0000

One more difference :

For a progressive download, you can seek only to a keyframe, so a seek takes you to the time of the first keyframe after the specified time. (When streaming, a seek always goes to the precise specified time even if the source FLV file doesn’t have a keyframe there.)

By: kathita

kathita — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:45:49 +0000

Apt explanation !!

By: Amit Jain

Amit Jain — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:18:22 +0000

Great Blog….Thanks a lot.

My project would have over million hits in a month, would progressive download a feasible solution still? Are there any chances that the server would go out of memory?

Regards

By: Dinflux Ed

Dinflux Ed — Fri, 15 May 2009 20:43:32 +0000

Very good explanation, covers everything someone would need to know!

By: Pat

Pat — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:28:17 +0000

If anyone can make any suggestions, what would you recommend for a web site to offer quality video content without copyright infringements.

How does Blockbuster do immediate rental downloads and sales to the computer?

By: Pat

Pat — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:24:30 +0000

I am with Tash, I want to offer video online but protect it from unauthorized copy or download. From what I get here, I should use streaming because it is harder to copy. If the video is 1hr+ and in HD, what would you recommend?

Also, how would progressive be legal with copy rights, you are not allowed to copy protected material and progressive downloads to cache file.

By: kathirvel

kathirvel — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:20:56 +0000

hi tash catch me
kathirvel(dot)mariappan(at)gmail(dot)com