From: Kevin Irelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SureStream "benefits"
Someone said:
>[With SureStream] the Player
>automatically switches between the streams (while playing) to give you the
>best stream that can be run your available bandwidth. Helps a lot in
>preventing those damn "network congestion: rebuffering" error messages.
I've come to think that SureStream actually increases the
potential for
net congestion. In my experience the switching between stream rates is
almost never smooth, necesitating rebuffering. And, unless one has a
dedicated internet connection, the bandwidth settings in the player seem to
be set to an impractically high value when based on modem speed thus
causing the player to switch upwards to stream rates that dial up
connections can't support. Any comments?
On this subject, is the "monitoring" of network conditions (upon
which a
player's surestream connection rates are established) simply a measurement
of the datarate being received by the player at any given time? Or, is
this an IP networking process?
Thank you,
Kevin Irelan
