Re: "Automatic" use of scalable video coding?

Gustavo Garcia said: 

"Do you envision any use case where it is valuable for the browser to enable
SVC without the developer explicitly asking for it?  Unless there is a
relevant use case I would say SVC should be only activated if the developer
ask for it or it is the only mode of a specific codec."

[BA]  Since SVC adds overhead it isn't optimal in all situations so that IMHO turning SVC on within the encoder should be explicit.  

Assuming that the developer does want to utilize SVC, but wants to allow the browser to choose the number of layers to use in the encoding,  my question was how this could be indicated.  
In practice,  it is non-trivial to determine how many layers are viable based on network conditions, let alone optimizing this as network conditions change.  So I can see potential value in being able to tell the encoder "figure out how many layers to encode" (potentially up to a maximum value).

Received on Tuesday, 23 September 2014 04:27:46 UTC