Posted by Sherman Pendley on 10/19/07 04:17

"Delli" <delli@belli.com> writes:

> i'm working in the range of 200Kbps to 800Kbps (dailup up to broadband) for
> the bit rate of these movies.

The broadband rate is fine, but that's way too high for dialup. Modems are
rated for 56Kbps at most, and often don't even get that much from a given
connection. Trying to stream movies for dialup often isn't worth it - you'll
have to shrink it to postage-stamp size to get any kind of decent frame rate.

> A dialup friend recently told me that her
> dialup connection (aol) took 20 min to download a 4 meg WMV movie.

That comes out to about 28Kbps - not at all atypical for dialup, especially
in rural areas with older equipment in the exchanges.

> for
> some reason it didn't buffer & play, it dl'd the whole thing 1st. prob a
> tweak I overlooked.

The movie has a bitrate that's over seven times that of the connection - it
may have calculated that it would have to buffer the entire movie in order
to keep playback from catching up with the download.

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