Different kind of streaming?

1. I do have fms 3.5 interactive, installed on my server. What I was trying to say was that it is not necessray for me to use it if there is an other way to get the results I am after. Any application will do, as long as I will get the kind of streaming I want to get.

Ok there might be solution of such kind but i am not aware of any such commercial solution.

2. No, I did not mean a short clips played over a local network, there are hundreds of tube sites that play 90, 120 minute long clips, and they are played the way I am trying to achieve on my server, too...

I was not talking about use case here, i was talking about your experience, i meant you might be seeing this effect with built-in player or FLVPlayback because you are playing small files over local network.

3. ... which is: a clip (long one, 120 minutes long) is played from the beginning, and you can see that the downloaded part is running faster than the actual point of the clip you are viewing on the timeline, so, it is downloading into ram or tenp internet files..., but you can click at a place on the timeline which was not downloaded yet, and the clip will start playing from that point right away AND the "downloaded" part wil advance from the point where you clicked. So, it is kind of streaming (you can click on any part of the timeline and the clip will immediately start from that point), and downloading at the same time.

Again i am saying it is not pure progressive download nor its pure streaming, its in-between approach something called HTTP Streaming.