If I'm thinking about this right, it's like a fancey way of just letting the user download the video. Yes it seems like streaming because it plays right away. However there isn't any push behind it and it's normally very choppy and looks bad.

Originally posted by Xstr8guy
If you encode in .wmv (windows media) in most circumstances, the video will play while it's loading... is that's what you mean by "streaming" but the quality is not the greatest.