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Perry E. Metzger (perry@piermont.com)
16 Feb 1999 18:37:57 -0500
Lewis McCarthy <lmccarth@cs.umass.edu> writes:
> Alex Alten writes:
> >>> I wouldn't call these lightening fast. For example compressed video over
> >>> a LAN requires a minimum enciphering speed of 20 MB/s, these barely cut
> >>> the mustard at 400 Mhz.
>
> Perry Metzger writes:
> > 1) Compressed video doesn't go that fast in typical applications.
>
> A colleague of mine who works on network video transmission says:
> "Assuming we are talking about streaming, acceptable broadcast quality
> full motion compressed video requires an average bit rate of about
> 4-6 Mbps (for MPEG-2). Below that the quality gets bad. A higher bit
> rate of course gives better quality."
Mr. Alten of Tristrata would have us believe that 20MegaBYTES per
second is required -- FOURTY times the rate you are claiming (which I
believe, btw.)
Perry
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