A discussion about Flash Movies

[Star Man]

Originally Posted by Star Man

I was under the impression that flash movies hardly used any bandwidth.I thought that was how all these tube sites were getting away with posting all these big free movies this whole time.Looks like those sites go through more bandwidth then I thought|shocking|

Wait a sec,I'm a little confused.How much bandwidth (if any) does the average 1 minute flash clip use? Anyone?

[thebes]

Originally Posted by Star Man

Wait a sec,I'm a little confused.How much bandwidth (if any) does the average 1 minute flash clip use? Anyone?

This completely depends upon what bit rate it is encoded at. You should expect figures that are roughly in the same range as other video formats for a given quality.

One caveat, if you take a compressed file and encode it as a flv at or near the same bitrate as the original, you will lose quality... this is true of any lossy media format though. Its always best to encode to a lossy format from the best source you can.

[Star Man]

Originally Posted by thebes

This completely depends upon what bit rate it is encoded at. You should expect figures that are roughly in the same range as other video formats for a given quality.

One caveat, if you take a compressed file and encode it as a flv at or near the same bitrate as the original, you will lose quality... this is true of any lossy media format though. Its always best to encode to a lossy format from the best source you can.

Cool,thanks