Saturday, January 23, 2010

Compressing for streaming - Moderate speed broadband

Video compressed for moderate speed broadband (600 kbps) can look surprisingly good.
You can use 400kbps for video and 64-96kbps for audio. This permits 480x360 or 640x480 video that looks pretty good. Music sounds good.
Pauses and other streaming issues will be rare unless the line is shared among multiple users.

For download video, I recommend 700kbps for video and 96-160kbps for stereo audio. This will allow 640x480 looking excellent or 1280x720 looking OK. Music will sound very good to excellent.

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