Stopping MP4 from streaming?

**IllTestYourGirls** · 02-09-2008, 09:15 AM

anyone

**CurrentlySober** · 02-09-2008, 09:17 AM

Zip them???

**testpie** · 02-09-2008, 09:23 AM

Originally posted by IllTestYourGirls

Anyone know how to I can make my mp4 links go to download and not stream?

thanks

Why would you want to do that? Streaming is better for everyone - if the surfer only wants to see some of your video, they only have to stream part of it; saving on bandwidth costs for you in the long run. In fact, even if they want to see the whole thing, it's still going to take the same amount of bandwidth to stream the whole thing as opposed to offering it as a complete download; and given that there probably will be some who don't want to download the whole thing, it seems to me to be better to just leave them to stream.

Amount of seconds until someone pops in to correct me... 3... 2...

**IllTestYourGirls** · 02-09-2008, 09:27 AM

I want th surfer to click the link and download the mp4 not the zip.

I know it might save bandwidth but I am not worried about that. I need a way the surfer can just download the mp4 file.

**pstation** · 02-09-2008, 09:36 AM

have your webserver send out a "application/force-download" mime-type header for mp4 files

**IllTestYourGirls** · 02-09-2008, 09:47 AM

thank you! Worked perfectly.

Originally posted by pstation

have your webserver send out a "application/force-download" mime-type header for mp4 files

Stopping MP4 from streaming?

Stopping MP4 from streaming?

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