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Originally Posted by blackmonsters
Of course the server is going to stream it, nobody
sets that up without streaming.
h.264 will have to download the whole video before it plays if the server
does not stream.
So who would do that, besides you? 
Sites would use Flash Media Server with h.264 and that was the most common
way to use it. And that's where the "h.264 can stream and jump but flv cannot"
came from since people used flvs without Flash Media Server.
So seeing a .flv pretty much meant it didn't seek pass the downloaded portion
and seeing an h.264 pretty much meant that FMS was streaming it.
That is changing with other media servers being available now. |
In other words... There's no difference between offering FLV or H264 in terms of the whole "seeking" thing you've been talking about since you need a streamng server to do the seeking beyond what's been downloaded. In which case, FLV or H264 doesn't matter since they can both seek to any point regardless of how much has been downloaded.