[whatwg] Limiting the amount of downloaded but not watched video

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Chris Pearce <chris at pearce.org.nz> wrote:

> Can this not be implemented on the server side? If you know the media has
> an average playback rate of X KB/s, can the server reliably throttle its
> transmission at 1.5X?
>

Yes, it seems to me that if you simply throttle the rate at which the server
delivers data to the video rate plus some safety margin, that should help.

It won't be as efficient as it could be if the user pauses the video,
though.

Rob
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