Whoof - reliable 640x480 on a PII? I'm probably go for MPEG-1.
CBR @ 3 Mbps?
on 25-08-2005 16:32, Craig Taylor at email@hidden
wrote:
I sent an e-mail recently about trying to strike the balance
between quality
and slower computer speeds on a current project. The minimum
specs for the
target machines are: Pentium II MMX, 128MB RAM, 32x CD. We are
streaming
straight from CD and there is a couple videos that run 5-8 minutes.
Sorenson is just proving too much for the processing power even
using CBR
and dropping frames. Skipping video, loss of sync. Any
suggestions on the
next best option. (We need to try and run at 640x480, but will
drop size if
absolutely necessary.)
Ben, you could maybe decode MPEG1 on that CPU... but a machine of
that vintage is very unlikely to be able to get 3Mb/s out of a
CD-ROM!
He's referring to MPEG- oriented bandwidth requirements, megabits /
second, which is
basically 2X CDROM, fine for that vintage of machine.
