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Streaming Media General Discussion

Streaming Media General Discussion

Bit-rate requirements of common connection speeds

November 2nd, 2007

When streaming media over the web, it is important to take into consideration the speed at which your viewers are connecting to the internet. Listed below are several common connection speeds and the corresponding bit-rate at which your videos will need to be encoded in order to play back smoothly. Bit-rates are listed in Kilobits [...]

How to tell if video can be streamed

November 1st, 2007

All files that are to be streamed must be hinted for streaming. This is made possible by the hint track, which is a small piece of data inside a streaming movie file. Our streaming servers recognize the hint track and use it to guide the streaming process. The hint track is never sent to the [...]