Download and Play videos

I am attempting to build a video player that can play files
we store on amazon s3, but also download them to play when offline.
When a user selects a video, I would like to have the video
start downloading to an app directory and immediately have
FLVPlayback start playing it when enough is downloaded. The problem
is if I use URLStream to download the videos, the FLVPlayback
component won't play it until it's 100% downloaded. But if I point
FLVPlayback to the file online, I can't get to the temp file to
store it for later use.
Does anyone know a way to either (1) have FLVPlayback play a
video that is being downloaded into an app directory or (2) get at
and store the file an FLVPlayback component is progressively
downloading?
Thanks!

Hi John,
There's a protocol (RTMP) for streaming video (this is the
sort of video that you can play as soon as a useful chunk is on the
client side). Your server will have to support streaming video for
this.
As far as streaming FLVs without a special media server is
considered, there are several hacks / workarounds people have come
up with like
http://www.flashcomguru.com/index.cfm/2005/11/2/Streaming-flv-video-via-PHP-take-two
None of them will give you the performance that will be
present when a media server will be present.

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