[Bug 18963] New: Provide a mechanism for rate limiting appending

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=18963

           Summary: Provide a mechanism for rate limiting appending
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Media Source Extensions
        AssignedTo: adrianba@microsoft.com
        ReportedBy: acolwell@chromium.org
         QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-media@w3.org


This bug is the result of discussions around Bug 16998

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-media/2012Jul/0074.html
http://www.w3.org/2012/07/31-html-media-minutes.html#item05

Currently there is no mechanism for the UA to signal that it wants the web
application to stop appending for a while. A UA might want to do this in a
memory constrained environment to help the web application avoid appending "too
far ahead" which might trigger media segment eviction (Section 2.10). 

It could be useful to have a mechanism that notifies the application when
further appends will trigger evictions so the web application could use
remove() (https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=18709) to control what
time ranges get removed. When the UA determines that enough data has been
removed to allow appending again it can notify the application with an event.

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Received on Friday, 21 September 2012 22:28:52 UTC