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Originally Posted by Kolargol
I use about 5000kb/s, 25fps - not sure what other info is important...
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good luck if you're trying to stream that to your clients... the bitrate is essential in streaming and 5000kbs means the end user must have a bandwidth of absolute minimum of 5mbs to view it without stalling. In real terms, because their bandwidth seend by their ISP is never eqaul to the bandwidth seen at your server, I'd say for a 5mbs bitrate video, they'd need at least 7mbs to view it without stalling.
Best to encode at 1/3/6mbs (more disk space for you) and use some sort of bandwidth calculator (automatically done for wowza streaming) to determine on the fly (meaning if their bw increases, switch to higher quality etc) which video to stream.
I'd *never* offer 5+mbs bitrate as an only option - you kill too many clients.