Posted by David Graham on 01/21/57 11:37

> If the video is served as true streaming media from a media server,
> such as is done on many big media sites and audio/video broadcasts, the
> media file will not be cached at all, except for a small buffer cache
> that keeps being updated as the video plays. Think of what would happen
> if you had a streaming radio or video broadcast on all day on
> broadband, and everything was cached. You would soon run out HD space
> to store the many GB cach file.
>
If the Flash movie plays when I'm not online and I may add plays much
better, no pausing when I'm offline, is that proof positive that it is
coming from my hard drive on my computer?

thanks for the help
David

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