What'd you think of the game? I had a fun night with some former coworkers in Brooklyn. I have NO depth perception and I HATE driving in the city. However, it was fun. Let's talk for a second about the commercials. I LOVED the GE scarecrow one. I liked the eTrade talking babies. However, the GoDaddy ones were straight inappropriate. I'm not uptight by anymeans, and I believe there is a time and place for nudity and sexual jokes. The Superbowl really isn't the place. I look forward to possibly having kids one day, and if I do, and I'm sitting there with my cool skater twin 5 year old sons with long hair big blue eyes I don't want to have to feel uncomfortable about their perception of women and sexuality. That was a crappy commercial, to go with GoDaddy's crappy hosting and crappier support. Eight thumbs down.
I wanted to ask around if anyone does video streaming? If so how much do you buffer before you play the video? I use S3 and I love it, but on older machines there is a bit of a hiccup. Has anyone done this with S3? The salesguy warned me about making sure I don't make a stop on our server with the video before going to browser.
Tonight is short and sweet. I hope you had a good weekend.
I don't really think it is a buffering issue, because really fast connections will need almost no buffer, where really slow connections might never fill the buffer in a reasonable amount of time.
ReplyDeleteWhat you really want to do is downgrade the bit-rate for slower connections and give good bit-rates for fast connections. That way you get a two sided approach the buffer is storing the stream on the client side and the server side is downgrading the stream appropriately to get the a pretty equal transfer rate across all connections.
If you are using a flash based or silverlight based solution for video streaming. There are certain technologies out there that will test the bandwidth and downgrade the bit-rate appropriately. Sort of like what Netflix does.
Scott has a pretty good read on an IIS 7 module that controls bit-rates. www.hanselman.com/.../SqueezingTheMos
Thanks, Nick, I'm going to start there.
ReplyDeleteI don't really think it is a buffering issue, because really fast connections will need almost no buffer, where really slow connections might never fill the buffer in a reasonable amount of time.
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