Scenario. I stick in a Youtube video in a site. The size is 5 MB. The person presses play. The video plays. Now this is being streamed by YouTube. So YouTube use 5MB of bandwidth. What about me? Is this identical to hotlinking images. i.e. does the one embedding video, or any other multimedia use up his/her own bandwidth by streaming? Thanks!
It's about the bandwidth of the server where the video / image is hosted. If you are hotlinking it, you're using their bandwidth, not yours. One of the reason why some prevent image hotlinking, to stop bandwidth theft.
Right so then if you stream a youtube video like normal - embedding it into your site you aren't using your bandwidth. That's what I thought. Skinny
As long as embedded video url, does not have url to ur server you are safe that ur not leeching your own bw . Regards
I still don't know how they managed to pay their bandwidth bill before Google bought them when they were allowing hotlinking.
Hmm, u were not watching news ? There were 100 banks looooootted , make a wild guess as to who robbed those 100 banks ???
However it does go on your downline on your ISP package (if you have a monthly usage limit). Unsure if a 5MB download would say 5MB on your bandwidth for your ISP.
Thanks everyone. The Dumb Question is answered. @ Softcloud I believe it would go as 5MB for your ISP. I have a limit and sometimes exceed it and all because of videos and BW hogs. Skinny