Can load a video into a video tag in chrome. Press play and pause. See it makes a single request and buffers the whole video.
<video controls>
<source src="/video/sample.mp4" type="video/mp4">
Your browser does not support the video tag.
</video>
into a html file, and run it against this pastebin [0], you'll see that chrome (and safari) both do range requests out of the box if the fileis big enough.