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sergii.gudym
sergii.gudym

Reputation: 173

Bad connection emulation for video stream

what is the easiest way to check friezes and lags for different internet speeds of a video file? Maybe some players can run local videos with problem emulation?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 79

Answers (1)

Ivan
Ivan

Reputation: 778

Streaming behaviour under bad network will highly depend on what kind of protocol you using.

For example, with HTTP-based protocols like HLS / DASH you will experience freezes if bandwidth is not enough. With UDP-based protocols like WebRTC there's gonna be artefacts / freezes / drop in bitrate.

The way you can test it is:

  1. Run media server in docker or on linux server
  2. Install network emulation tool like netem. It allows you to limit bandwidth, introduce package loss, jittering and tweak many other parameters
  3. Play video; adjust netem setting (it can be done in runtime)

Upvotes: 1

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