Progressive Download Partial Request

We are pushing large movie files, and bandwidth is expensive. We are concerned that while our entire program is downloading, people are only watching the first few minutes and choosing to download the file directly rather than watch the program in the embedded viewer. We are hoping that we can make a partial request to our movie file. And only start downloading the majority of our movie once the user has passed a certain part of the program. Ultimately saving us on unneeded bandwidth usage. Obviously a streaming server would solve this problem, but I don't think we have access to one.

You could try cutting the movie into sections, part 1 two and three and then offer each section as both download and watch. That way, they could watch part 1 then download 2 and three (or more sections if needed).

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