Streaming server / YouTube

Polytropon freebsd at edvax.de
Tue May 26 12:54:32 UTC 2009


On Mon, 25 May 2009 23:25:13 +0200, FBSD UG <freebsd at rgbaz.eu> wrote:
> without that youtube nonsense there wouldn't be a youtube anymore
> it's a copyright agreement not to store the videos on someone's  
> harddrive
> while watching...

While downloading, you're usually not watching (while it's
still possible to watch inclomplete files with mplayer).

And for complete correctness, the video IS stored on the
harddrive "in parts" (according to the hard drive based
caching of the stream).


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Polytropon
>From Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
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