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Originally Posted by blimey
The speed of the download is fixed by the server because it is streaming in play-time. It sends at a rate equivalent to what is required for the flash player to play it. More bandwidth won't increase the speed of any individual stream capture for this particular source. The download should take the same amount of time as it would take to play the entire program.
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The speed is fixed for live streams. Also when you capture packets from a streaming player, you get stream media from it in real time or as fast as the player buffering the media stream. But when you download an on-demand stream, it can be several times faster than in real time.