The Buffer

Overview

The Buffer is the part of the RxPlayer choosing which segments to request and pushing them to the corresponding SourceBuffer.

It tries to choose the optimal segments based on:

• current network conditions
• browser capacities
• the current playing conditions

The AdaptationBufferManager

The AdaptationBufferManager allows to easily create Buffer for a single manifest’s Adaptation.

Basically, it will dynamically create and destroy RepresentationBuffer - which are Buffers linked to a single Representation - based on the current conditions.

The RepresentationBuffer will then have the task to do the segment-downloading and pushing itself. More information on it is available in the RepresentationBuffer documentation.