Originally Posted by Robbie

It's more of an issue than just bandwidth speed. As I found out when I went to encrypted h264 .mp4's on claudia-marie.com s members area. Streaming on the web puts the load of processing on the USER.

I can stream as many full length vids as I want on her members area at the same time, doesn't even make the cpu of the server budge.

BUT, if you encode them at a high bit rate...then the USER can not watch them without it constantly stopping and starting and "stuttering" etc.

I originally encoded at a variable bit rate of 2-6 megs per second. The vids looked awesome. Not even a tiny bit of pixielation even when there was a lot of fast movement and big titties flying around.

And I had no problem watching them on my computer. But, what I didn't take into account is the fact that most surfers out there have their computers loaded down with resource hogging programs that are always running in the background.

90% of my user base were writing me and bitching that they couldn't get the vids to play correctly. So I had to re-encode everything down to 1200 kilobits per second. Had to do some tweaking to get it to look good. But now I'm happy and so are my customers.

Bottom line is...as of now, there is NO way to stream "real" hd. And it's not the bandwidth speed that is the issue. It's the cpu on the users end being overwhelmed. The higher the bit rate, the more cpu is used on the user end.

Having said that...tube sites are't using encrypted streaming or h264 .mp4's anyway. They are simply setting up light http on their server and streaming .flv's. So they aren't gonna be doing anything special anytime soon until they spend some money. And I don't see that happening either.