How does HTTP Adaptive Bitrate Streaming work on the iPhone?

Question

Apple has included HTTP Adaptive Bitrate Streaming in the iPhone OS 3.0, in particular Safari handles this automatically.

I\'d like to play with this in a low cost manne

Answer 1

See this for an open source encoder and segmenter and some other cool stuff :)

http://www.ioncannon.net/programming/452/iphone-http-streaming-with-ffmpeg-and-an-open-source-segmenter/