I was surprised by just how many small chunks (as you said 2 seconds, a few hundred kilobytes) the browser has to request and string together to make a video st

I was surprised by just how many small chunks (as you said 2 seconds, a few hundred kilobytes) the browser has to request and string together to make a video stream that play smoothly and that I can skip around. It's kinda amazing when you think about it.