[streaming] Re: Has anybody got any reliable low bandwidth videos?

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Dante wrote:
> Marc Thach Xuan Ky wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> I have been trying to find a low-bandwidth video to test my network.  
>> I want to transmit across 2 M circuits.  The only clip that I have 
>> working reliably in a loop is pres_short.vob from the Videolan site 
>> but that is over 5 Mbps.  I've got a couple of good Disney (Lion King) 
>> clips but
>> they
>> all give errors at the end, and so they will not loop.  I have tried 
>> remaking them with a program called TMPGEnc but the output files from 
>> this will not stream at all.
>> So the question is: has anybody got or know of a suitable file that I 
>> could download?
>> I'm using vls 0.4.0 on W2k server.
>> rgds
>> Marc TXK
>>  
>>
> I'm not sure how correct my next statement is, but my understanding 
> would be that VCD mpeg files (close to VHS quality, MPEG1) have a 
> standard encoding rate of 1.15Mbps (??) so theoretically should be a 
> good match to stream over 2mb circuits.
> 
The problem however is that MPEG1-PS is not streamable due to a lack of 
headers that carry necessary information. MPEG2-PS or MPEG2-TS are 
streamable, so re-encode the video's in one of these formats at an 
appropriate bandwidth. Then streaming will not be a problem.

Greetings,

Jean-Paul Saman.

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