[Ambulant-users] estimate available bandwidth

[Kees Blom]

On 11/11/2009 02:24 PM, Jack Jansen wrote:
>
> 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....
Probing ?
> -- 
> Jack Jansen, <Jack.Jansen at cwi.nl>, http://www.cwi.nl/~jack
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> Goldman
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