[foms] Proposal: adaptive streaming using open codecs

Andy Berkheimer andyberkheimer at youtube.com
Mon Nov 1 17:55:46 PDT 2010


On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Christopher Blizzard
<blizzard at mozilla.com> wrote:
> On 10/29/2010 12:53 PM, David R wrote:
>
> Few devices have sufficient storage to allow buffering high-bitrate video to
> compensate for a slow connection.  In addition, content owners often place
> limits on the device buffer size.
>
> Is that defined anywhere or is it on a per-contract basis?

In my experience it's contract dependent, so it's not specified off in
some MPEG or SMPTE standard if that's what you're wondering?  Policy
can vary a lot depending on what other technologies are involved in the
delivery.

-Andy


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