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

[Glenn Maynard]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 5:46 AM, Mikko Rantalainen <
mikko.rantalainen at peda.net> wrote:

> This way the UA would (slowly?) converge to correct downloadBufferTarget
> for any site for any given network connection. If the full length of the
> video clip is known, then downloadBufferTarget should probably be more
> along the lines of multiplier of full video clip length instead of
> static time period in seconds. This is required because a 5 second
> buffer could be enough for a 20 second clip but a 2 minute buffer could
> be required for one hour video. In both cases, the actual available
>

I'm confused--how is the required buffer size a function of the length of
the video?  Once the buffer is large enough to smooth out network
fluctuations, either you have the bandwidth to stream the video or you
don't; the length of the video doesn't enter into it.

-- 
Glenn Maynard