On 2011-01-17 18:36, Markus Ernst wrote:
Am 17.01.2011 17:41 schrieb Jeroen Wijering:
We are getting some questions from JW Player users that HTML5 video
is quite wasteful on bandwidth for longer videos (think 10min+). This
because browsers download the entire movie once playback starts,
regardless of whether a user pauses the player. If throttling is
used, it seems very conservative, which means a lot of unwatched
video is in the buffer when a user unloads a video.
Could this be done at the user side, e.g. with some browser setting?
Or even by a "stop downloading" control in the player? An intuitive
user control would be separate stop and pause buttons, as we know them
from tape and CD players. Pause would then behave as it does now,
while stop would cancel downloading.
I think that's the right way to do it, this should be in the hands of
the user and exposed as a preference in the browsers.
Although exposing (read only?) the user's preferred buffer setting to
the HTML App/Plugin etc. would be a benefit I guess as the desired
buffering could be communicated back to the streaming server for example
for a better bandwidth utilization.
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