Re: Ratelimiting video to avoid buffer bloat

On Thu, 2012-03-01 at 09:56 -0800, Jason Duell wrote:
> [Moved to dev.tech.network]
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> On Thu, 2012-03-01 at 12:51 +0100, Ashwin Rao wrote:
> >  I have a suggestion regarding streaming HTML5 videos. Currently
> >  Firefox does not restrict the rate of data transfer while streaming
> >  HTML5 videos. Google Chrome and Internet Explorer however restrict the
> >  rate of data transfer. I have detailed out these rate restrictions in
> >  a preliminary work available at hal.inria.fr/inria-00638063/en/
> 
> 
> On 03/01/2012 07:53 AM, Patrick McManus wrote:
> > This is actually a design item we've already incorporated for an
> > upcoming implementation of the DASH framework. I don't recall having
> > talked about it in the scope of normal video/webm stuff but you're
> > absolutely right that it applies there.
> 
> Yes, we should do it for all video.
> 
> > I've cc'd some folks who are hands on with the video projects -
> > hopefully they can chime in here an incorporate this. Its an important
> > topic. Can the right person file a bug?

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733010