Hello, I wanna ask if I am hosting my website and flash player on server1, which plays a .FLV file hosted on server2 ... will bandwidth of server1 be used to play video? Other than regular page and player loading? Or all video related bandwidth will be consumed from server2 and server1 bandwidth will only be used for website and player loading? Help will be appreciated. Thank you.
Greetings, Just to make certain I have this correct: Client web browser points to server 1, which downloads the FLV player to the client (using bandwidth of Server 1). The way the FLV player typically works is that it makes a request to the source from the client computer. Therefore, you are correct in that the client computer now plays the video on server 2, using server 2's bandwidth. I am assuming here that you have a fairly "normal' (or well-behaved) flv player. If that is the case, then your concept of how bandwidth is used in that scenario is correct. The playing of the FLV file occurs like the client asked server 2 for the file. Hope this helps.