castalla wrote: > How would anyone ever know whether it saves or costs more money? > Without open accounting it's all conjecture.
As I understand it, a good reason is to get away from "rebuffering" (which users hate) - HLS/HDS/DASH all allow for changing bitrates while a stream is playing so if backbone network gets overloaded or just the user home wifi gets slow - the server will be able to choose to send a slower bit rate audio stream fragement for the duration of the overload so eliminate/minimise "rebuffering". It will also probably enable servers to be more efficient. Side effect is that audio quality could vary during a live transmission - that'll be the issue BBC has to get right. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53229 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
