Streaming measurements
Network jitter and visible stutter are different observations
Network jitter describes variation in packet timing under a specified measurement method.
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Streaming measurements
A 10 MB buffer is not ten seconds of video
A buffer measured in megabytes and one measured in seconds describe different quantities.
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Data usage changes between two viewing hours: check adaptive quality and workload
Two one-hour sessions need not consume the same amount of data.
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A slow programme start and a stall twenty minutes later need different notes
A programme that takes a long time to show its first picture and one that starts quickly but stalls later present different evidence.
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Peak bitrate or average bitrate? Compare the number the question needs
A brief network-transfer peak, an average encoded media rate and a link-capacity label can all be measured in Mbps while describing different things.
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A test server's city label does not locate your media source
A speed-test endpoint labelled with a city measures a path to that endpoint under the test's method.
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