[streaming] Re: Control flow rate

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Eric Knapp wrote:
> I could be wrong, but I think what he's looking for is a way to control 
> the bit-rate of the MPEG stream.  I also have use for this.
> 
> Basically, take a DVD and stream it at 3Mbps instead of 8Mbps (or 
> whatever it ends up being when you stream a DVD).  This would require 
> VLC to compress the video to a lower bit-rate before streaming it.

I do not think an already encoded video can be further compressed with 
alot of gain. If he wants to lower the used bitrate of a video then he 
should revert to transcoding (actively lowering video quality and 
bandwidth requirements). VLC CVS comes already with some transcoding 
capabilities.

-- 
Kind greetings,

Jean-Paul Saman




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