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Re:YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video by walterbell on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @06:05AM (#8959151)
It also supported SMIL with real-time buffering of content from independent sources. You could create a small XML file that dynamically and seamlessly streamed video excerpts from multiple servers, appearing as one stream.
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Re:YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video by agumonkey on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @06:58AM (#8959306)
Hehe, SMIL, the early days of web defined standards. Our university tried to enforce its usage but it never caught up. Multimedia streaming at that time was still an oddity. Never be too early.
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