Bug 232426

Summary: [Meta] Improve handling of media playback where server doesn't support range-request.
Product: WebKit Reporter: Jean-Yves Avenard [:jya] <jean-yves.avenard>
Component: MediaAssignee: Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: Normal CC: webkit-bug-importer
Priority: P2 Keywords: InRadar
Version: Other   
Hardware: Unspecified   
OS: Unspecified   
Bug Depends on: 232425, 232422    
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Description Jean-Yves Avenard [:jya] 2021-10-27 23:49:20 PDT 
Currently, when playing a video hosted on a server with no-range request support, we end up having to download the entire file into memory.

This could be improved in multiple-ways:
- Disable seeking or only allow seeking in buffered area and drop content as playback progress.
- Cache content to disk
- Reduce memory usage

This is a meta bug to track those incremental improvements
Comment 1 Radar WebKit Bug Importer 2021-10-27 23:49:56 PDT 
<rdar://problem/84744935>