5 | | To get ready to evaluate how effective this streamloading scheme is, the experimenter implemented a simple streamload client in Python: |
| 5 | To get ready to evaluate how effective this streamloading scheme is, the experimenter implemented a simple streamload server and client. |
| 6 | He decides that the server will host some video metadata files that contain some basic information about the video for which they are named. For example: |
| 7 | |
| 8 | {{{ |
| 9 | #!xml |
| 10 | <video chunks="40" layers="3" chunktime="1.65" buffer="4" url="chunks/" /> |
| 11 | }}} |
| 12 | |
| 13 | The streamload client will request this video metadata file from the server, and then request one ''subchunk'' at a time until it has played the entire video: |