On May 21, 2012, at 3:26 AM, Alan Ogilvie wrote: > On this one - remember that in the case of HDS in Flash, the requests for > fragments are being bubbled up to the host browser HTTP stack - so would this > change your answer? > Nope. Our HTTP stack and ram/disk cache are completely different entities to the Media Cache. I only mentioned it to get confirmation from one of the media guys. So, it wouldn't change the answer. Flash should not be using the Media Cache.
> Further - why would we want fragments going into the media cache (i.e. what's > the benefits of doing so)? > For Flash, we don't. For media using built-in decoders it is a store for buffering data; the decoding thread and the network/socket thread work asynchronously as consumer and producer respectively. But don't worry about it for Flash :) > > On 21 May 2012 06:11, Robert O'Callahan <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'll let Nick and Michal comment on garbage collection for regular > > cache objects. We also have a media cache, which the guys on > > dev-media have a better understanding since they wrote it, but I > > don't think it's used for Flash, only for built-in decoders. > > Correct. Our media cache does not affect Flash in any way. > > Rob > -- > “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ > But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that > you may be children of your Father in heaven. ... If you love those who love > you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? > And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others?" > [Matthew 5:43-47] > > _______________________________________________ dev-media mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-media
