[foms] WebM Manifest

[Philip Jägenstedt]

On Sat, 07 May 2011 10:40:50 +0200, Pierre-Yves KEREMBELLEC  
<pierre-yves.kerembellec at dailymotion.com> wrote:

>> Furthermore, chunking like this restricts all clients to make the same  
>> requests: if one client requests a 10s chunk and another
>> a 5s chunk then you cache 15s of data even if the 5s piece is contained  
>> within the 10s piece. This restriction reduces either
>> cache efficiency or client performance.
>
> Absolutely, this is the whole point: encouraging all clients to make the  
> exact same requests, to increase cache-ability for
> all types of caches, even those not playing nice with byte-ranges  
> (enterprises, ISPs, browsers, ...).

Which browsers support <video> but don't play nice with byte-ranges? I  
doubt such a browser exists, because HTTP byte ranges are a fundamental  
part of how <video> currently works.

-- 
Philip Jägenstedt
Core Developer
Opera Software