Bitrate switching not working in 4.6

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Oct. 16, 2009ng

I am testing out 4.6, but I cannot get it to deliver the highest quality video (700k). It looks like it's selecting the 400k version, although I'm on a college campus where we have a fast enough connection to get the 700 version. Am I missing something in the configs?

http://informatics.iupui.edu/video/switch.html

Oct. 20, 2009David

I am having the same issue. Tested by using completely different videos for low and high. The qualitymonitor plugin says level 1 of 2, but it is playing the level 2 video. I am streaming from highwinds. Any suggestions?

Oct. 21, 2009Nate

I am having the same issue as well. We are on limelight. Any ideas?

Oct. 27, 2009Steve

Same here, using http streaming, always stays on the first item in the stream

Oct. 27, 2009Steve

My issue appears to be that entries need to be ordered highest to lowest, otherwise it doesn't work.

With yours ng it seems your bandwidth is spuradic adding the qualitymonitor will allow you to see this:
so.addParam('flashvars','file=http://informatics.iupui.edu/video/playlist.xml&plugins=qualitymonitor-1');

Oct. 28, 2009Jordan

So no matter which version i put last in my XML file the player always chooses number , the last one.

Here is my XML file

<rss version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/">

<channel>

<item>

<media:content bitrate="800" url="http://www.lt11.tv/stream/ColoradoGlow(800kbps).flv" width="720" />

<media:content bitrate="400" url="http://www.lt11.tv/stream/ColoradoGlow(400kbps).flv" width="720" />

<media:content bitrate="1200" url="http://www.lt11.tv/stream/ColoradoGlow(1200kbps).flv" width="720"/>

<media:content bitrate="1600" url="http://www.lt11.tv/stream/ColoradoGlow(1600kbps).flv" width="720" />


</item>

</channel>

</rss>

Am I doing anything wrong? Is it because all my files are the same width?

Nov. 06, 2009JeroenW

@ all: the videos in the switch should indeed be ordered from highest quality (top) to lowest quality (bottom). The player will then check the first video to see if its bitrate is lower than the bandwidth and its width is lower than the player width. If so, it'll play it. If not, it moves to the next video in the list.

@ Jordan: I think that your player window is actually smaller than 720px wide. That way, the player does not find a matching bitrate until it ends up with the last one and then chooses that.

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