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Status: WontFix
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Closed: May 2018
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OS: Android
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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Collect UKM on video bytes transferred

Project Member Reported by bengr@chromium.org, Mar 14 2018

Issue description

This will help to understand which technical approaches to pursue to reduce the number of bytes transferred on behalf of data saver users.

This might not be straightforward because video is often not carried with content-type video/*.

For example, some sites carry video in text/plain.

One approach would be to record bytes per content-type encountered on the page. Another (harder) would be to trace through Chrome how bytes are used. Still another would be to try to infer type from content-type and file extension. I think I prefer the first.

 

Comment 1 by bengr@chromium.org, Mar 14 2018

Status: Assigned (was: Untriaged)

Comment 2 by bengr@chromium.org, Mar 14 2018

Cc: hubbe@chromium.org
I'm not really sure how to measure bytes like Youtube or DASH considering they won't look like video bytes. Is there a way to get this information reliably?
Talked to Ryan, still on his plate but still need to resolve what byte size is feasible wrt network stack having no visibility into Shaka player loads. 
I believe the path I would like to use is reporting total bytes played on the page (not limited to network bytes), as the layering makes it very tricky to make this decision correctly. The way many videos are played from blob URLS means that trying to figure out where those bytes came from is near impossible.
These bytes would be aggregated over all frames and bucketed similar to network and cached bytes.
Status: WontFix (was: Assigned)
We'll go ahead and use total data use with a holdback to analyze data savings.

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