Video Query

[Sam1]

If you stream a video and then download it with a Firefox plugin, will it use extra bandwidth to download? Or will you use the same as the video size?

Something I'd really like to find the answer to...

BTW- by extra I mean than downloading or streaming the same file directly.

 

[Sam1]

Anyone....

 

[Hubok]

Well considering it is technically downloading it DIRECTLY...

 

[xpl0iter]

What do you mean by downloading it directly?
I have seen some versions of IDM do it without the need of any extra bandwidth. It just copies the file from the buffer/temp to the download folder. But normally it won't work like that. It will use the extra bandwidth for downloading the file along with the streamed content's bandwidth.

 

[Sam1]

What do you mean by downloading it directly?
I have seen some versions of IDM do it without the need of any extra bandwidth. It just copies the file from the buffer/temp to the download folder. But normally it won't work like that. It will use the extra bandwidth for downloading the file along with the streamed content's bandwidth.

So it depends on the plugin/ downloader used?

 

[xpl0iter]

So it depends on the plugin/ downloader used?

Yep. But I rarely see that kind of downloaders nowadays. Almost all of them are using the extra bandwidth!

 

[Sam1]

Yep. But I rarely see that kind of downloaders nowadays. Almost all of them are using the extra bandwidth!

Ah ok. I think there was a firefox plugin which claimed to not. :/ I'll have to investigate.