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Audio and video codecs are generally stream/packet based. You'd really have to screw up the container format to make a codec completely incapable of streaming.
by fleitz 15y ago
Audio and video codecs are generally stream/packet based. You'd really have to screw up the container format to make a codec completely incapable of streaming. (Like putting the last frame of video at the start and the first frame at the end of the file)
If you use a player like VLC you can generally watch videos while they are downloading.
- Scaevolus 15y agoLow-latency is required for realtime applications, which many codecs are incapable of.
- colanderman 15y agoThe issue is more so whether the codec can handle dropped packets. It wouldn't surprise me if FLAC could not recover in such a case; usually lossless codecs employ something like Huffmann coding which places a large dictionary at the start of the file.