alt Hacker News> When the network is bad, you get... fewer JPEGs. That’s it. The ones that arrive are perfect.
You can have still have weird broken stallouts though.
I dunno, this article has some good problem solving but the biggest and mostly untouched issue is that they set the minimum h.264 bandwidth too high. H.264 can do a lot better than JPEG with a lot less bandwidth. But if you lock it at 40Mbps of course it's flaky. Try 1Mbps and iterate from there.
And going keyframe-only is the opposite of how you optimize video bandwidth.
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It might be possible to buffer and queue jpegs for playback as well to help with weird broken stall outs.
Video players used to call it buffering, and resolving it was called buffering issues.
Players today can keep an eye on network quality while playing too, which is neat.
> Try 1Mbps and iterate from there.
From the article:
“Just lower the bitrate,” you say. Great idea. Now it’s 10Mbps of blocky garbage that’s still 30 seconds behind.