Media element to play audio/video from stream

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Hi,

I'm using media element to play audio video file.
I've stream of data (Byte[]) which is used to create create file at a given location and then the file is used for playing.

I was willing to know whether it is possible to play the Data-stream without generating file.

One more confusion I've is with the concept of playing a media file from Internet. Does media-element downloads the file and then play or just buffers the file and play, b'coz I tried some thing like this::

1> I gave media element's source a url of a hosted file (big file) over remote server.
2> mediaElement.Play(), started playing the file before waiting for few secs.
3> I disconnected the internet, but still media element was able to play the complete file, while when i download that file from browser it took around 2 minutes to get it done.

Kindly suggest.

Thanks,
Abhishek Kumar