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Originally Posted by AsianDivaGirlsWebDude
One final issue, is that while most streaming video until now has put the load on the end-users computer, however my understanding is that the Wowza streaming server that I am switching to keeps the load on the server side, so that the end-user is only seeing a "hint" of the video, which also allows the end-user to click anywhere on the video and not have to wait for it to before it starts playing again.
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My Adobe Flash Media Server has always streamed in a way that you can click anywhere in the video and instantly stream from there. So that's nothing new.
But I've never heard any of the stuff about Wowza supposedly putting the load on your server instead of the end user.
If it did that...you would shut down your server pretty quick when you get a few hundred people streaming vids simultaneously.
As far as I know...streaming video (and especially encrypted vid like I do) puts the main load on the viewer. You wouldn't want the load on your server. Because then people would REALLY have troubles trying to watch the stream as the server cpu maxes out.