Has to load entire MP4 before playing was created by wildview
Hi, is there a way to have your player stream the mp4 versus having to load the entire mp4 file before playing. It streams on my iPad, but not in Firefox, it has to load the entire file first which is slow. Could you let me know how to stream the mp4\'s.
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Usually HTML5 audio and video players will allow the user to start playing a media file before it has fully downloaded (as long as it actually has something to play!). Sometimes this isn’t the case with an MP4 file, where the browser waits to download the entire file before making it available to play. This is due to an encoding issue.
Sometimes MP4 files are encoded with the file index (which contains information on the file such as it’s duration) placed at the end of the media file rather than at the beginning. This index contains the metadata that the browser requires in order for it to offer progressive download. If this index is at the end, it knows nothing at all about the file and therefore has to wait until it receives the index.
If this happens to you, there’s a simple fix called the
QTIndexSwapper
by Renaun Erickson that you download to your computer and run on the file that simply moves the index to the start of the file and saves it.