A 1Mbps stream (high quality 480p or potato quality 720p) would need a 10Mbps burst to fill a 10 second buffer or wait some time before playback. It would need somewhere north of 1Mbps to keep the buffer full accounting for dropped packets, jitter, and seeds dropping out. If the stream drops below 1Mbps for longer than ten seconds then playback stops.
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A 1Mbps stream (high quality 480p or potato quality 720p) would need a 10Mbps burst to fill a 10 second buffer or wait some time before playback. It would need somewhere north of 1Mbps to keep the buffer full accounting for dropped packets, jitter, and seeds dropping out. If the stream drops below 1Mbps for longer than ten seconds then playback stops.
It all makes for a shitty user experience.