> A user must download the entire video before playback starts. That was not my experience. If the web server announces the Content-Length of the video file, m

> A user must download the entire video before playback starts. That was not my experience. If the web server announces the Content-Length of the video file, most browsers will make a range request for the end of the file and then go on from there. Latency is still a bit higher this way, but no way near downloading the entire video file.