[foms] WebM Manifest

[Zaheer Merali]

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Silvia Pfeiffer
<silviapfeiffer1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree that we should not rely on any intelligence in the network.
>
> However, we also cannot expect intelligent servers. We have to deal
> with what standard HTTP servers allow - at most we can assume byte
> range request support. So, in essence, all intelligence needs to be in
> the player. And for players to do "chunking", I cannot see a way
> around byte range requests. If you do, please share.
>
> Cheers,
> Silvia.

You can do chunking by having separate requests for different URLS for
each "chunk". This gets around the need for byte-range requests.

Zaheer