After some talking with Chris C and doing some of my own research, he verified that the client is what controls the stream "get" from the server. The client controls the amount of video data (either in data size or timeline, not sure) and the server responds accordingly, regardless whether there is …

[Feature Req] Control Stream from Client

tom80H Closed May 23, 2021, 12:03am 6

Early 2021 clean-up: duplicate

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