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.