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No, not IP multicast. Imagine it as a web server that serves FLV files which always start at the current stream position. This is what it did.

Actually bringing up the proxy issue is interesting. I'm not sure if it does. Essentially forbidding all caching would make it play nice.

Isn't that pretty close to how HTTP Live Streaming works?

You mean the apple protocol? Not sure, but I looked at that when I designed it. What I did was just the most intuitive

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