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Originally Posted by AsianDivaGirlsWebDude
I also noted in a recent Review Site posting that their ratings were skewed towards sites offering as high as 8Mbps videos.
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With respect to the review sites, they are pretty clueless when it comes to stuff like that. To agree with what Robbie said, I've also seen AMAZING quality videos at 500kbs or less that is better than any video any review site would regard as top quality at a higher bit rate.
I don't have it on this machine, but shoot me an email and I'll send you a link to a blog who is an expert encoder. I think he works for Adobe. He gives lectures around the world on encoding technology. He is making 200kbs HD videos that are better than the highest quality, highest bit rate porn video you have ever seen online. It's insane. I can't replicate it, much of what he is doing is waaaaay over my head, but it can be done, that is my point, and to agree once again with Robbie that h.264 was meant to be compressed and used as a smaller file size.
With that said, Ron has some solid advice as well with the adaptive streaming and using the middle to lower sized encodes, as does glowlite with encoding for the lowest common denominator (that is what I do). But by all means, run one out of the highest quality for yourself and archive it for down the road. I just think you'll have problems streaming them so large. Download... no problem, but the stream is probably going to studder unless they have a somewhat powerful machine, as Robbie mentioned.