To chunk or not to chunk
Jim Summers, Tim B. Brecht, Derek L. Eager, Bernard Wong · 2012
Large amounts of Internet streaming video traffic are being delivered using HTTP to leverage the existing web infrastructure. A fundamental issue in HTTP streaming concerns the granularity of video objects used throughout the HTTP ecosystem (including clients, proxy caches, CDN nodes, and servers). A video may be divided into many files (called chunks), each containing only a few seconds of video at one extreme, or stored in a single unchunked file at the other.