[Playlist] XSPF clipping

Nathan Freitas nathan at openvision.tv
Fri Jun 2 19:55:23 UTC 2006


Ryan Shaw wrote:
>> Ah!  Well, the thing I was thinking of was using the HTTP byte-range 
>> feature, which is generic to Apache.  Most servers will support that, 
>> the question is whether a Flash client can get into the request 
>> headers and muck around at this level of detail.

Does load an arbitrary range of bytes work for an MP3? Wouldn't you 
still need the file header?

I know with Quicktime that you can't just grab some bytes from the 
middle and play it, even if its a "Fast Start" file. If you are using 
RTSP this is different case.

+nathan


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