How to get current bandwidth of the network in gstreamer

[Ian Davidson]

I think that you are fighting a battle that you are bound to lose.

Normally, to determine the bandwidth (for downloads) the test is to see 
how much data you can receive from an 'inexhaustible source'. If you 
tried to do that while you were receiving video, either the video would 
spoil the results of the test or the test would spoil the video.

How frequently would you plan to do your investigation? If you went into 
an empty Starbucks and used their free WiFi, the bandwidth might be 
quite good. Having established your session, the place could fill up 
with everyone fighting for WiFi bandwidth – and what you see would be 
much lower bandwidth than when you started. If you're not careful, you 
will spend so much time checking on the bandwidth that you won't have 
any time to process video.

I would think that your best hope is building/maintaining a modest 
buffer of downloaded frames and checking that the buffer does not empty. 
Perhaps with a mechanism to tell the sending end to send at a lower 
framerate if the buffer keeps emptying.

Ian



On 18/01/2016 17:28, gstreader wrote:
> Is there anyway I can get the current bandwidth in gstreamer streaming
> application ?
>
> Thanks
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