[Ambulant-users] estimate available bandwidth

[Jack Jansen]

On  9-Nov-2009, at 15:11 , Sabine Moebs wrote:

> Dear Ambulant developers,
>
> If I use the SMIL systembitrate tag, it says in the documentation,  
> that the player estimates the available bandwidth.
>
> I have one big question:
> HOW do you estimate the available bandwidth?


Do we actually say that in the Ambulant documentation? The SMIL spec  
states that this is indeed what should happen, but Ambulant has no  
mechanism to do this bandwidth estimation. In stead, the value that  
systemBitrate attributes are compared to is picked up from the  
settings.xml file.

If anyone knows of a method to determine available bandwidth we'd be  
happy tro implement it....
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