Help Need Feedback please

[MadCat]

Originally Posted by nate

Theres one guy here that is a lighttpd expert that might be able to offer advice about that and streaming. If he reads the thread, he'll know who he is.

I'll jump to the assumption it's me since seem to be the only one around here to use lighttpd

It's normal actually, combination of the player as well as the flv stream module for lighty, there's no way to tell lighty to stop sending data. Some players will support it by basically remembering the offset that they are at stream wise, and will drop the connection when you hit pause. When resuming play, it will do a new request for the stream starting from the point in the video you are up to the end.

Strictly speaking it is better to just have it download even while paused -- you're going to burn that bandwidth one way or the other. On a legal tube (which this one doesn't seem to be) the "wastage factor" is quite small since the clips aren't long. If you're aiming to be the next YouPorn, then you will have to get used to spending multiple thousands of $ per month on bandwidth.