[Ffmpeg-devel] Adaptive Streaming???

Måns Rullgård mru
Fri Jul 29 11:11:43 CEST 2005


Fran?ois Revol said:
>> Hi,
>> I need some knowledge on what comprises of Adaptive Streaming.
>> I have been hearing this for quite some time, especially in the
>> context of
>> network bandwidth adaptation.
>> I wanted to know if the file would be re-encoded to a different bit
>> rate for
>> network adaptation or a portion of it.
>> coz, if the whole whole is encoded, as for the network congestion,
>> the next
>> stream of packets may need to be encoded in a different rate, hence
>> the
>> original encoding may not be useful.
>
> Starting from the real "surestream" thingy, afaik the basic way of
> things is:
> the source is always encoded at multiple bitrate, and the player asks
> whichever bitrate it wants depending on the congestion it detected
> recently.
> The change probably happens only on keyframes though.

This is where the SI and SP frames of H.264 come in.

> The source must always be encoded at all bitrates, since not all
> players might want the same bitrate at the same time anyway.
> For static files, they just have several video (and maybe audio)
> streams, and are hinted for the server. Like quicktime but others
> including asf do this as well.

Realmedia comes to mind.

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