VBR is a short for "Variable Bit Rate" which means it is changing all
the time by specific things that the software think is fit for the content.
In streaming it is being used to stream the video and\or audio in a way
that fits the current bandwidth more then the quality.
Indeed as you say about itag etc but still they changed couple things
and the only way is to force a fetch of the full object as far as I can
tell.
(it was a question which is half a question and half an answer)
Eliezer
On 04/07/2014 11:23 PM, babajaga wrote:
Sorry, but what is "vbr" ?
>The issue is that the player is using vbr <
I do not understand your question. First of all, the request usually is not
simply
>r8---sn-nhpax-ua8e.googlevideo.com<
but also contains add. info, like itag, id, and, most important,
range=xxx-yyy.
I was always afraid, that youtube/google might start to make xxx-yyy more or
less random, as this will definitely kill cachability,unless sombody writes
some very smart code to join/extract the various parts.
