From: Steve McMillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: errors in error log
I believe the information you were given (see below) may only be true on
pre-4.0 versions of our player plus or pre-5.0 versions of our free player.
After that, we implemented a feature called "Perfect Play" which would buffer
the content in the player until it had enough data to play strait thru. Thus
allowing the user to have a bandwidth setting in the player higher than their
actual connection.
With the introduction of G2 and SureStream, the player also had the option of
dropping to a lower bitrate, if one exists, even though the user made a 'bad'
initial choice of bitrate.
Please see my other reply to this question which discusses this in more depth.
Cheers!
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RealForum wrote:
>
> From: Susan Mix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: errors in error log
>
> Yes- I was told that it means the enduser has set the player's bandwidth to
> be higher than what is actually available to it.
>
> I.e., a person w/ a 56k modem selects that as the optimal connection speed,
> but in reality maybe the throughput is only half that. So even though
> Realplayer defaults allow for a lot of overhead (in this case requiring
> only 34K of the full 56K supposedly available), they still are possibly
> requesting more data than their actual bandwidth can accommodate.
>
> Or more likely, the user selected something like ISDN or LAN as the default
> connection speed thinking it would improve performance when in fact the
> connection is some sort of dial-up.
>
> --Susan
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