Neil Smith [MVP Digital M
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Wed Aug 31, 2005 8:30 am Post subject:
Re: Media Player for Mac OS/X only connects at lowest availa |
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On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 13:49:05 -0700, Edward Silha <Edward
Silha@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
| Quote: | I have a test broadcast running (Server Pull from Encoder)...
I have the compression set for a 128k and 32k 15fps, PCs coonect at 128 or
32 depending on the speed of their internet connections.
Media Player for Mac ONLY Connects at 32k, no matter if the user has dial up
or broadband.
If I stop the 32k stream and restart the publishing point the Mac has no
problems connecting to the 128k stream.
What's the story? Why does the media player for Mac default to the lowest
quality stream.
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No, however it *should* report to the media server its available
bandwidth. My tests indicate it doesn't do this (you can see the
effect in the server log file). It's a bug in the WMP client for Mac.
As a result, the server defaults to the lowest bandwidth available, by
assuming the client available bandwidth is near to zero.
I'm thinking it might be possible to create a plugin for the server
which can check the client string on connection, and start with the
highest bandwidth, working down till it gets no dropped packets. It
should do that anway, but seems to trust the clients bandwidth
reporting (which is incorrect behaviour for a server !). No time right
now to look at this, maybe somebody already wrote this though.
HTH
Cheers - Neil |
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