what is preventing me from streaming video correctly with nginx?
tunist:

You've gotten pretty close to getting this going - nice that you did the curl to determine that the byte-range was not being honored.  I had done exactly that in the past when setting this up.

If you check here: http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_mp4_module.html  You may find what you're looking for - it is unclear whether you're using this module or not already, so perhaps this is what you need.

--dan