What is a “reference movie,” “metafile,” and “playlist,” and what do they do?
A reference movie is a movie file that contains one or more pointers to movie files or streams. Reference movies are a type of metafile. Playlists are also a type of metafile that allows you to point to several clips to play in a sequence. If you are going to embed your streaming movie in a web page, you should create a reference movie, and your HTML code will point to that file instead of the file on the streaming server. The reference movie can also direct users to different movie files, each targeting a different bandwidth level.
