[whatwg] Limiting the amount of downloaded but not watched video
Roger Hågensen
rescator at emsai.net
Mon Jan 17 10:19:51 PST 2011
On 2011-01-17 18:36, Markus Ernst wrote:
> Am 17.01.2011 17:41 schrieb Jeroen Wijering:
>> We are getting some questions from JW Player users that HTML5 video
>> is quite wasteful on bandwidth for longer videos (think 10min+). This
>> because browsers download the entire movie once playback starts,
>> regardless of whether a user pauses the player. If throttling is
>> used, it seems very conservative, which means a lot of unwatched
>> video is in the buffer when a user unloads a video.
>
> Could this be done at the user side, e.g. with some browser setting?
> Or even by a "stop downloading" control in the player? An intuitive
> user control would be separate stop and pause buttons, as we know them
> from tape and CD players. Pause would then behave as it does now,
> while stop would cancel downloading.
I think that's the right way to do it, this should be in the hands of
the user and exposed as a preference in the browsers.
Although exposing (read only?) the user's preferred buffer setting to
the HTML App/Plugin etc. would be a benefit I guess as the desired
buffering could be communicated back to the streaming server for example
for a better bandwidth utilization.
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