While seeking in the browser takes about 2 secs, with ISA it takes about 5 secs. It's not a critical issue but can get a bit annoying especially when skipping over advertisements where it needs multiple seeks to find the exact position.
In these 5 seconds, ISA downloads 5 video segments of ~2.5MB each and 2.88s play time plus corresponding audio. This is nowhere near line speed but of course there is overhead from opening the connection etc. that can be pretty significant with small files.
Is it possible to download the segments in parallel instead of sequentially to speed up the process and compensate for the overhead of downloading segments?
And is it Kodi that demands a certain cache level until the video player resumes playback or does ISA decide how many segments to download?
If it's Kodi, would it be possible to start with low cache level after seeking and then gradually increase it, similar to the recently introduced low latency audio mode? Starting the stream is actually a little bit faster even than seeking in it currently.
And thanks @CastagnaIT for continuously maintaining this addon and putting all the effort in to improve it together with all the others that worked on it in the past and present
While seeking in the browser takes about 2 secs, with ISA it takes about 5 secs. It's not a critical issue but can get a bit annoying especially when skipping over advertisements where it needs multiple seeks to find the exact position.
In these 5 seconds, ISA downloads 5 video segments of ~2.5MB each and 2.88s play time plus corresponding audio. This is nowhere near line speed but of course there is overhead from opening the connection etc. that can be pretty significant with small files.
Is it possible to download the segments in parallel instead of sequentially to speed up the process and compensate for the overhead of downloading segments?
And is it Kodi that demands a certain cache level until the video player resumes playback or does ISA decide how many segments to download?
If it's Kodi, would it be possible to start with low cache level after seeking and then gradually increase it, similar to the recently introduced low latency audio mode? Starting the stream is actually a little bit faster even than seeking in it currently.
And thanks @CastagnaIT for continuously maintaining this addon and putting all the effort in to improve it together with all the others that worked on it in the past and present