Re: Detecting Client bandwidth
Re: Detecting Client bandwidth
- Subject: Re: Detecting Client bandwidth
- From: Josh Graessley <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 10:20:09 -0700
I believe reference movies allow the client to pick a bitrate based on
the bandwidth the user specified in the QuickTime settings. This
approach is flawed. Bandwidth can vary widely. The right approach
would be to dynamically switch between the different bitrate version
from the client as the download progresses. I'm not sure how feasible
this is since the client would probably need to know the file offsets
for various timecodes in each bitrate or something. I dont know if the
file format or server protocol make this easy. The performance hit of
partial gets vs. streaming an entire file over http may also have a
negative performance impact. In addition, the user may prefer to wait
instead of viewing overcompressed video.
Sent from my iPhone
On Aug 7, 2007, at 8:42 AM, Stephane Sudre <email@hidden> wrote:
On 6 août 07, at 19:18, Alan wrote:
Hi guys,
Are there any ways to detect/estimate the bandwidth of individual
clients connected to Darwin streaming server? I'm trying to
implement that when a client bandwidth is of lower speed, the
server will stream an inferior quality to the client etc.
Can anybody help me? Thanks in advance
Stupid question: isn't it what reference movies are designed for?
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