bandwidth in Flash player

[JoelBenM]

Hi everyone

I'll get right to the point. wondered what's your opinion.

we have built a Flash player that can play two movies using progressive download: either an FLV (h263) that is 640*480, or an "HD" h264 that is 1024*768.

I'm saying its better just to keep the h264 - better quality. But my colleague says we have to allow the users the option to watch the FLV, since some users won't have a good bandwidth for the HD.

but which one really consumes more bandwidth? I believe the FLV is. BTW, it might even be bigger in terms of file size...

who's right?

thanks for any idea
Lior

[unskinnyboy]

Common sense says that if the users have to download the videos, then the one which would take the most bandwidth would be the one which has the bigger file size, which ever one that is of the two. That said, the PC CPU/memory requirements to play your HD version would be more than your VGA version. Keep that in mind too if you are concerned about your users.

[cdanddvdpublisher]

Common sense says that if the users have to download the videos, then the one which would take the most bandwidth would be the one which has the bigger file size, which ever one that is of the two. That said, the PC CPU/memory requirements to play your HD version would be more than your VGA version. Keep that in mind too if you are concerned about your users.

Absolutely, the bigger the file, the more the bandwidth

[smok3]

some users won't have a good bandwidth for the HD
just a note, reasons to keep flv as well is:
a. some users will not have the correct flash version installed
b. some users may not have enough cpu power to watch it smoothly

[JoelBenM]

Sounds good - thanks guys! we will not use the FLV it seems :)

[cdanddvdpublisher]

Sounds good - thanks guys! we will not use the FLV it seems :)

Probably the best bet - at least for online users.