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Network.maxBandwidth

The maxBandwidth property specifies or retrieves the maximum allowed bandwidth.

Syntax

player.network.maxBandwidth

Possible Values

This property is a read/write Number (long).

Remarks

This property has no default value. The player attempts to achieve the highest bandwidth possible. Only in the case of the value being set will any throttling occur.

This setting is useful for throttling the amount of bandwidth used, particularly in the case of an MBR stream. An MBR stream contains multiple streams with different bit rates. In some cases, it may be desirable to use a stream with a lower bit rate than the client requires. In this case, setting the maxBandwidth property will select a lower bit-rate stream. For example, assume that an MBR stream includes streams encoded at 20Kbps, 37Kbps and 200Kbps. The user’s machine has a T1 connection. However, if the desire is to use much less bandwidth than is available, setting the maxBandwidth property to 50,000 (50Kbps) will select the 37Kbps stream instead of the 200Kbps stream.

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