How to get your HTML5 MP4 video file to play before being fully downloaded
A huge title to this post for sure, but it’s a relevant question and I’ve seen it asked a few times on places such as StackOverflow.
Browsers that use H.264 video (Safari, Chrome and various mobile browers) sometimes refuse to start playing the MP4 video file until it has downloaded it completely. This is obviously annoying and not what you want.