Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 10th Jul 2009 16:25 UTC, submitted by Hakime
"Apple has touted new HTTP Live Streaming features of the iPhone OS 3.0 and the upcoming Snow Leopard version of Mac OS X - and it has submitted the spec to the IETF. Will it be enough to supplant Flash as the de facto standard for delivering live or on-demand streaming online?"
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Well, everything which will become a standard extension is welcome. Bandwidth concerns are, IMO, quite weak because everybody is "streaming" via HTTP nowadays. Microsoft also provides extensions to IIS7 to ease streaming contents via HTTP.
However, as someone else noted, this is not true "streaming" but rather video-on-demand because actual streaming go far beyond that.
Anyway, I'm mixed about this approach because that would require splitting your videos and mantaining them. That would mean extra work for webmasters and potentially a mess when a lot of videos get uploaded on a server. Plus, everybody is able to record a video by their phone and publish it while not everybody could be able to split files, build playlists and so on.
On the other hand, this approach would allow browsers to work better with audio/video. Hmmm....