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 Streaming multimedia (video and audio) file |  |
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| Streaming video is a sequence of moving images that are sent in compressed form over the Internet and displayed by the viewer as they arrive. Streaming video with sound is the best way to show your video to the world as web users do not have to wait to download a large file before seeing the video or hearing the sound. Web users need a player (e.g. Real One, QuickTime, or Windows Media ) that uncompresses and sends video data to the display and audio data to speakers. The player can be either an integral part of a browser or downloaded from the software maker's Web site. |
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| Video Compression |
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| Compression is an encoding process that reduces the overall size of the video clip so that the video clip can be sent over the Internet real-time with an compromised but acceptable quality degradation. |
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| Multiple bit rate encoding |  |
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| Multiple bit rate encoding gives the best possible playback experience for different types of network connections. You encode your video file for optimum streaming in different bit rates for dial up modem, DSL, cable modem etc. to meet the connection speeds of your viewers. Instead of multiple encoded video clips, Multiple bit rate encoding will create one large encoded clip that contains all the bit rates you have chosen and a video server will negotiate and adjust the speed with the viewer. It will "upshift" or "downshift" the bit rate when connection speed changes so as to ensure play back will not be affected by internet traffic. A web server will download all the streams thus wasting a lot of bandwidth. |
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| How much bandwidth do I need? |
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| Because each stream increases the clip's file size, an encoded clip may be larger than its source file, even though the clip is compressed. If the clip's file size is an issue, limit the streams to just the essential speeds. The following table gives ballpark figures for space required for each minute of a stream.
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| Bit rate | Bandwidth (MB / minute) |
| 28.8 Kbps modem | 0.15 |
| 56 Kbps modem | 0.25 |
| 64 Kbps ISDN | 0.33 |
| 112 Kbps ISDN | 0.59 |
| 256 Kbps DSL | 1.65 |
| 384 Kbps DSL | 2.56 |
| 512 Kbps DSL | 3.30 |
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| If you encode a clip for 56 Kbps modems, 112Kbps ISDN and 256Kbps DSL for 3 different users, for example, the clip takes about 2.49 MB (0.25 + 0.59 + 1.65) bandwidth per minute per the 3 users. If the clip is five minutes long, the clip will need about 12.45 MB (2.49 x 5) per 3 different users. |
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