Stanford CS 144 Note 20 - Playback Buffer

什么是playback buffer

视频预加载的部分

Playback buffers

 

Horizontal distance：amount of delay

Vertical distance：Size of the buffer (how many bytes are in the path)

这个variable delay有upper bound和lower bound

Lower bound: No less than packtization delay + propagation delay

Upper bound: There is a maximum delay that a packet could experience ( Upper bound可能会很大 )

在 received by laptop曲线和playback rate两条线之间：

同一条水平线上的三个点分别是：when it was sent, received and playbacked

Horizontal line上的buffer部分指的是：how long a particular byte has been buffered

Vertical line上的距离指的是：how many byte in the playback buffer (Occupancy of the buffer)

当没有足够的buffer

就会进入到rebuffering的状态来获得更大的buffer 

即视频停下加载

 

Conclusion