- From: Jan Lindquist <jan.lindquist@ericsson.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:31:20 +0100
- To: Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com>, David Mays <David_Mays@Comcast.com>, "public-web-and-tv@w3.org WG" <public-web-and-tv@w3.org>
Hello, A couple of comments below reflecting some changes I made to the draft. Regards, JanL > > > > > 2. The input value here could vary depending on the underlying > > representation of "quality level" within the manifest or playlist. > > - In the case of HLS, each quality level is represented by > > BANDWIDTH=nnnnnn > > - In Smooth Streaming, each <QualityLevel> element contains > a Bitrate > > attribute > > - In MPEG-DASH, each <Representation> element has a bandwidth > > attribute > > > > So for three major forms of adaptive streaming, it seems as > though a > > direct reference to the "bitrate" or "bandwidth" number makes sense > > here as the input value. > > It's meaningless to describe bitrate or bandwidth with a > single number, unless you are talking about a very long-term > average. Bandwidth is not like velocity, which varies > continuously and therefore has a meaningful value at a single > point in time: you need to specify what kind of average you > are talking about (for example, over what time period). > What I am after that we agree on a "level" indication if that is - bandwidth - quality - bitrate - or other I made a small change to the first sentence in maxLevel to specific "maximum quality or bitrate level" instead of "maximum streaming level" to be consistent with minLevel.
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