Ultra-High Resolution Playback Visualization and its Applications

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Describes a system that records millisecond-level playback data to inspect adaptive bitrate (ABR) behavior in detail and presents visualization techniques for displaying that high-resolution information to identify opportunities to improve ABR algorithms.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:24Information Density
3. 0:47WHAT HAPPENED
4. 1:40What we did so far
5. 2:42Legible on a laptop
6. 3:31ABR has three parts
7. 3:46Monitor
8. 4:27Per-request predictions
9. 7:05actual playback rate
10. 8:12Horizon Chart
11. 8:23Small changes matter
12. 10:14Request progress
13. 10:29Quantize
14. 10:49Visualizing bandwidth
15. 12:05Specifies
16. 12:29Practical and worthwhile

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