A discussion about Flash Movies

[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|

I only made a couple of free movie sites and had to pull em'cuz they ended up using up 90 gigs after getting listed.I should have optimized and cut them up better though.Anyhow,if flash uses just a little less bandwidth,I'd like to build movie sites again personally.

As far as being concerned with flash because you can make it do evil things,I got an idea.|goodidea How about if we build free sites with flash movies that.........don't do evil things. If a webmaster is an asshole then he/she can already redirect pics,and whatever else you can think of doing to fuck over surfers.Flash can do some crazy stuff but once its embedded on a site that gets listed,it isn't any more of a risk to be messed with then anything else on a site is it?|confused|

[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