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I am aware that the mp4 format contains information at the end of file, but so do most other video formats. When I play a movie that is still downloading(any format but mp4),VLC asks me if I want to rebuild the index or play the broken file. Playing the file works but seeking is disabled as the inde...

I'm assuming that most formats have information at the end of the file, but just as it asks me to play an AVI file without fixing it, couldn't VLC play a mp4 file with the information it's currently downloading or is all this information useless without the data at the end of file ? Should I bring t...

Why so ?

Instead of streaming videos on the web, I download them using google chrome. This creates a .crdownload file that I can play with VLC while the download is happening. Of course, as with most video formats, the index part of the file is not completely operationnal until the file has finished download...