That's interesting - as we look towards MPEG-DASH profiles... which would seem to be something that might be 'built-in' at some time in the future.
On 21 May 2012 17:03, Steve Workman <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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
