[X4U] Streaming Confusion with QT Data Rates

[Eugene Lee]

On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 09:24:09AM -0700, revDAVE wrote:
: 
: I'm a bit confused about stream rates / data rates
: 
: many Web sites offer 4 basic streaming rates to match your DSL speed:
: low-100k medium -200k high-300k  modem-56k
: 
: But - when using QuickTime pro to export video streams, it appears that the
: dsl presets are set roughly to:
: 
: DSL-Low - video = 10k bytes per second
: DSL-Med - video = 28k bytes per second
: DSL-Hi - video = 82k bytes per second
: 
:  but aren't these set of very low?

I think you are mixing two different sets of numbers.  The first set,
e.g. "low-100k", probably means 100 kilobits/second (12.5 kilobytes/sec).
The second set, e.g. "DSL-Low - video = 10k bytes per second", means
10 kilobytes/second (80 kilobits/sec).


-- 
Eugene Lee
http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/