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A closed-loop (demand-driven) approach toward video-on-demand services, called multicast cache (Mcache), is discussed. Servers use multicast to reduce their bandwidth usage by allowing multiple requests to be served with a single data stream. However, this requires clients to delay receiving the movie until the multicast starts. Using regional cache servers deployed over many strategic locations, Mcache can remove the initial playout delays of clients in multicast-based video streaming. While requests are batched together for a multicast, clients can receive the prefix of a requested movie clip from caches located in their own regions. The multicast containing the later portion of the movie can wait until the prefix is played out. While this use of regional caches has been proposed previously, the novelty of our scheme lies in that the requests coming after the multicast starts can still be batched together to be served by multicast patches without any playout delays. The use of patches was proposed before, but they are used either with unicast or with playout delays. Mcache effectively hires the idea of a multicast patch with caches to provide a truly adaptive video-on demand service whose bandwidth usage is up to par with the best known open-loop schemes under high request rates while using only minimal bandwidth under low request rates. In addition, efficient use of multicast and caches removes the need for a priori knowledge of client disk storage requirements which some of the existing schemes assume. This makes Mcache ideal for the current heterogeneous Internet environments where those parameters are hard to predict. We further propose the Segmented Mcache (SMcache) scheme which is a generalized and improved version of Mcache where the clip is partitioned into several segments in order to preserve the advantages of the original Mcache scheme with nearly the same server bandwidth requirement as the open loop schemes under high request rates