by Phade » Tue Dec 03, 2002 10:54 pm
Hey,
This brings up a point about compressed (zip, rar, etc.) download files: If files are compressed on server and the downloader gets an incomplete download, there is no way to figure out if it is worth it to try the download again. If the video was in its regular "uncompressed" state, the downloader could view the fragment that they received and then use that to base a decision on wether they should try to download the rest of the video. If they decide the video wasn't as good as they were expecting, this would actually save bandwidth by the user not re-downloading the video. Using the "compressed on server" method as in this case, the downloader will have to re-download and re-download until they get a complete file before viewing the video.
Just making a point.
Hopefully I will be able to successfully download the video soon. ^_^
Phade.