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Siro Mfume
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Join date: 5 Aug 2004
Posts: 747
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04-03-2005 12:37
Is there one? I can do one that is around 10mb quite easily, but one that is around 30 just never, ever loads. Is this a builtin limitation (as I have no limitation set on myself and waited easily 3 times as long as I did for the 10mb one). Yes it plays in quicktime just fine.
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Foolish Frost
Grand Technomancer
Join date: 7 Mar 2005
Posts: 1,433
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04-03-2005 14:11
It's not a 'size' limit, but a usable 'bandwidth' limit due to the the movie server's upload bandwidth limit and the clients download bandwidth limit.
To figure out hom many KiloBytes a movie takes per second in bandwidth, divide it's total filesize by the number of seconds it can play. A 10 meg movie that is 5 minutes long equals (10,000 KB / 300 seconds) = 33.3 KB per second. A modem has a limit of about 5 KB per second, and my DSL modem has an Up/Download limit of 50/350KB.
So, I could show the above movie to only one person before bandwidth became an issue due to my smal upload bandwidth, or I could stream about 9 differant movies from the net to my PC.
Let me know if you were able to follow that...
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Siro Mfume
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Join date: 5 Aug 2004
Posts: 747
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04-03-2005 15:16
okay so that's helpful.
Filesize / timeofmovie < uploadspeed of server + works in quicktime player = works for streaming.
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