Apparently, the browser has some built-in smartness for opening pull streams (the client application starts and controls the stream transfering). This is uncommon but definitely cool :-) In this case there is no issue regarding the amount of memory available in the device. The remote file is not entirely downloaded. The application just creates a buffer for storing a certain number of packets, which are discarded as soon as they are combined and displayed as a video frame or audio sample. Loreno On 6/13/06, Reiner Klenk <pdq808 at t-online.de> wrote: > > Am Dienstag, den 13.06.2006, 16:30 -0400 schrieb Michael P. Lococo: > > > > Nothing special really. Dropped the .avi into the filespace of my > > > apache2 server on the desktop. Used opera on the 770 to navigate to > the > > > file, klicked it, accepted to open with videoplayer and it began > playing > > > right away. > > > > This is different than streaming. In this case, you're downloading the > > file to a temp directory and playing it from there. This will work fine > > for small clips, but gets bogged down for large videos. It may not work > at > > all for files larger than the free space on your internal flash. > > > That's the point exactly. It did not download the file before playing > it. That's why I said it started playing _right away_. The lights on the > router keep flickering all through playing the video. > > Anyway, I'm rebuilding ffmpeg and vlc on the desktop for mythstreamtv > and I'll let you know how it goes. > > Reiner > > > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users at maemo.org > https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/attachments/20060613/01b5cf15/attachment.htm
