If you already know why you would want to use Amazon Cloudfront and S3 to deliver your video in your Joomla site, you can skip right down to the tutorial.

Streaming versus Downloading

What happens when you offer a video file for download on your web server? The web server pushes the file to the users browser as fast as it can. When enough data has been downloaded, the player that is inside the users browser will start playing the file. You cannot fast forward to the end of the file, because the download starts at the beginning. Especially when you have a large file, it can take quite some time before the user can view your video. Not good.

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