5 Nov
2008
5 Nov
'08
10:55 p.m.
Sean Carolan wrote:
Ok this is kind of a goofy question but I want to make sure I get it right. Suppose we have a 25 mb video, that is 117 seconds long. If we wish for this streaming video to play smoothly with no compression, buffering or skipping, the following bandwidth requirements must be met:
25 megabytes = 204800 kilobits.
204800 kb / 117 seconds ~ 1750kb/s
Does that look right to you?
add 5 or 10% for network protocol overhead. I generally figure, 25Mbyte == 250Mbits, so come up with 2.1 Mbit/sec.