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http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/06/youtubes-smarter-video-player.html http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/06/youtubes-smarter-vi... Rather than using a single HTTP request to pull a video stream, your player makes (hopefully intelligent) HTTP requests as needed to pull pieces of potentially multiple streams of different bitrates.