Re: Ratelimiting video to avoid buffer bloat

On Thu, 2012-03-01 at 09:56 -0800, Jason Duell wrote:

> 
> One big question is: at what level should we be doing this?  The obvious 
> two choices are to 1) have the video layer control download speed by 
> calling suspend/resume on the network channel as needed.  That's a 
> pretty blunt hammer;  or 2) add some sort of API to necko that lets the 
> consumer specify what sort of bitrate they need to get out of the 
> channel, and have necko deal with controlling the rate.  

presumably #2.. maybe load group based instead of or in addition to
channel. non video use case would be things in the download window when
they were competing with interactive needs.