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Standard User jchamier
(eat-sleep-adslguide) Tue 24-Mar-15 19:49:57
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Re: HD streaming


[re: Banger] [link to this post] 		 
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Well I just tried this video and it was saturating my 16 mbit connection, note at full screen, in a window it was about 5 meg.


I ran it full screen on my machine, 5 year old Core i7 with a 1920x1200 screen. I saw a peak of 50mbps but it varied from 30 to 48 most of the time.

I'm using the HTML 5 player in Firefox. Its possible the Adobe Flash player could be quite different and pick a more compressed stream.

I'm also using the Task Manager in Windows 7 to estimate network usage.

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Edited by jchamier (Tue 24-Mar-15 19:51:40)
Administrator MrSaffron
(staff) Tue 24-Mar-15 19:51:16
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Re: HD streaming


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Full screen it seems to have a [censored] bit rate even if you force the 1080p stream.

Sure you were not seeing the long buffer up front? Also at 1080p with some codecs some platforms can struggle, move to downscaling 2k or 4k content and it gets worse with dropped frames.

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Standard User jchamier
(eat-sleep-adslguide) Tue 24-Mar-15 19:52:38
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Re: HD streaming


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Sure you were not seeing the long buffer up front? Also at 1080p with some codecs some platforms can struggle, move to downscaling 2k or 4k content and it gets worse with dropped frames.

Try the HTML 5 player, rather than the flash player. Uses almost no CPU on my machine, so I assume accelerated by video card, and I have a £20 video card - GeForce 210.

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Standard User jchamier
(eat-sleep-adslguide) Tue 24-Mar-15 19:53:25
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Re: HD streaming


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Full screen it seems to have a [censored] bit rate even if you force the 1080p stream.

Huh, looks like I'm only getting a 720p stream option for HD. Do you have a 1080 option?

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Standard User Oliver341
(eat-sleep-adslguide) Tue 24-Mar-15 19:55:05
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Re: HD streaming


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Well I just tried this video and it was saturating my 16 mbit connection

It shoudn't do, my 16 meg connection handles it fine.

Oliver.
Standard User Oliver341
(eat-sleep-adslguide) Tue 24-Mar-15 19:56:18
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Re: HD streaming


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Huh, looks like I'm only getting a 720p stream option for HD. Do you have a 1080 option?

I do.

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Standard User jchamier
(eat-sleep-adslguide) Tue 24-Mar-15 19:56:55
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In the YouTube Flash player I get stats, and the option to use 1080p video. The stats report bitrate of 4282kbps average, at 1920x1080 pixels. I can no longer see the bandwidth being used in task manager, its that low. Occasional spikes and obviously a lot of buffering.

So the answer is to use the Flash Player version of YouTube if you are on a slow connection smile

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Standard User Oliver341
(eat-sleep-adslguide) Tue 24-Mar-15 20:00:14
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Re: HD streaming


[re: jchamier] [link to this post] 		 
Hmm, I'm running the HTML5 player with 1080p. No problems with saturation.

http://s29.postimg.org/6y34m92ev/fiji.png

Btw, not sure why that screen capture reduced to 720p!

Oliver.
Standard User epyon
(experienced) Tue 24-Mar-15 20:00:48
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Re: HD streaming


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12-13Mbps for me at 720p on I.E9

will try when im home from work I guess.

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Standard User Oliver341
(eat-sleep-adslguide) Tue 24-Mar-15 20:01:47
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http://postimg.org/image/y8ofu65bn/full/

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