An average 1.5 to 2 hour movie fits under 700 meg for VHS quality. That works out to just under 100KBps or 800Kbps. That is for AVI. The benefits of AVI is there is no special hardware needed on the customers side to be viewed on a computer and lower server workload. The bad thing is it uses too much bandwidth. Using MPEG4 will require a fast computer on both sides or dedicated decoder CPE. But I think using MPEG4 will bring a single data stream down under 20KBps or 160Kbps. This is very doable.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Blazen Wireless Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 2:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [smartBridges] Voice & Video on vemand (Love to hate Comcast) Let me check it out I am interested.. Thanks ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Covert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 11:02 PM Subject: RE: [smartBridges] Voice & Video on vemand (Love to hate Comcast) I ran a little experiment here... I ripped part of a DVD and compressed it to something I would consider 'VHS quality'. The clip is 30 seconds and it uses 3.6meg of disk space. To me, that would mean a data stream of around 120K. An entire 2 hour movie would take about 900meg at that rate. Not too bad as far as the cost of disk space goes these days (30gig for $80) If you want to see the clip, to judge the quality for yourself, lemme know... Dave -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Roger Howard Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 9:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [smartBridges] Voice & Video on vemand (Love to hate Comcast) Not a lot.. if you are going to stream them at 300kbps, then that would be about 263 Mb per 2 hour movie. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Blazen Wireless" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 9:05 PM Subject: Re: [smartBridges] Voice & Video on vemand (Love to hate Comcast) > Okay make sense thats a LOT of storage .-) and fun ripping them all I too > have a bunch.. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Roger Howard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 6:51 PM > Subject: Re: [smartBridges] Voice & Video on vemand (Love to hate Comcast) > > > > I cant see myself having a DVD layer at my noc for every movie I have? Is > > there a device like a carousal that houses over 200 DVDS and lets you play > > more then one at once? > > You would rip them and store them on a hard drive for streaming. > > The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List > To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe > smartBridges <yournickname> > To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe > smartBridges) > Archives: http://archives.part-15.org > > > The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List > To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> > To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) > Archives: http://archives.part-15.org The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) Archives: http://archives.part-15.org --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) Archives: http://archives.part-15.org The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) Archives: http://archives.part-15.org The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) Archives: http://archives.part-15.org
