Re: HTTP redirect for HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) in CDN use cases

On 2018-11-06 02:51, Ori Finkelman wrote:
> While I agree that Alt-Svc may be the to better solution looking 
> forward, we still need to resolve the issue for existing HTTP redirect 
> architectures, mainly for HLS as it is still the dominating video 
> streaming protocol, but for DASH also.
> HTTP redirect is widely in use and clients that don't conform with the 
> relative resolution, as it seems to be the case, degrades qoe and cause 
> a significant performance hit on CDN load balancers.
> 
> If there is agreement that in case the playlist is requested separately, 
> and it is not embedded within another encapsulating entity, then the 
> playlist base URI is the final retrieval URI, after redirect, it would 
> be great if there could be some clarifications that establish this 
> understanding.
> ...

Where exactly do you think a clarification is needed?

Best regards, Julian

Received on Tuesday, 6 November 2018 02:08:51 UTC