Re: multimedia capplet

[George Karabin <gkarabin pobox com>]

On Jan 12, 2004, at 1:02 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 20:07, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 02:24:18AM -0500, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> > > > - Network speed: 56k, ISDN, Cable, bleh (see Totem's prefs for the
> > > > complete list) (int from an enum as well), that would be used for
> > > > Streaming protocols that support such a thing (only mms and rtsp 
> > > > that I
> > > > know of)
> > Seems fairly bogus in the context of a laptop.
>
> They are used to select the stream used for things like mms:/// and
> rtsp:/// streaming, which have different streams based on the 
> connection
> speed. No way to detect this without a lot of traffic (like you're 
> going
> to try and max out a 1 Gbit LAN...).

On the other end of the spectrum, measuring the traffic can't be the 
right answer on a pay-by-the-bit cellular packet network. That's at 
least one laptop context where the setting makes sense, if there isn't 
some other fix.

- George