Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Bandwidth limitations in GM

[Craig Southeren <craigs postincrement com>]

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 12:29:42 +0200
Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com> wrote:

> Le jeu, 17/06/2004 à 20:26 +1000, Craig Southeren a écrit :
> > I doubt that *any* combination of existing codecs could use 10Mbps, let
> > alone 1Gbps. Maybe if we added a HDTV codec with 5.1 dolby sound, we
> > might get close.
> > 
> > Seriously though, if the current GM allows 10Mbps then there is no
> > problem, other than making sure it is displayed as such.
> > 
> 
> The measure is in kbytes/s => 100 kB/s is the max.
> 
> I also thought it was a pretty high bandwidth for the current codecs.

Not for a video codec, if used with G.711. Given that G.711 takes 64kbps,
that leaves on 36kbps for video. 

Robert and I chose 10Mpbs because that was guaranteed not to deny any
combination of video and audio.

   Craig


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