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hongzimao / pensieve

Neural Adaptive Video Streaming with Pensieve (SIGCOMM '17)
http://web.mit.edu/pensieve/
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Question about average bitrate versus rebuffering #113

Open harshita1804 opened 4 years ago

harshita1804 commented 4 years ago

Does MPC prefer having to rebuffer rather than delivering low quality video content? this is what I understood from their demo but i am not sure as to what degree this assumption is valid.

hongzimao commented 4 years ago

The "preference" to video quality of MPC may be because the balancing factor on the video quality term is large in the MPC objective function (i.e., using a small mu and a small parameter in front of the bitrate change term, equation 6 of pensieve paper).