You have to see "Gorbachev Speaks on Germany" at 20Kbps
seems to work well.
Mostafa
>
>Many thanks to Anind for pointing this out...
>
> http://www.vxtreme.com
>
>They have just released a beta of their WebTheater. Anind, Gregory
>and I were watching videos on a PC in the GVU lab and while it was
>not TV-broadcast quality it was still *VERY* good (>15 fps) with
>better-than-real-audio quality audio...
>
>If you've played around with SUN's video cameras and their proprietary
>compression schemes, you have an idea of the quality- It comes in two
>sizes 320x200 or 160x100...
>
>Now, you're thinking, yeah, but what's it like on a 28.8 modem?
>
>
> EXACTLY THE SAME!!!!
>
>
>"Completely Amazing" does not begin to describe the experience of seeing
>a lecture at Stanford (> 15 fps, in color) with audio and WWW pages
>that change slides based on what the instructor is doing --- all from
>home on a 28.8 line.
>
>(although the actual lecture itself is somewhat less than amazing)
>
>Further details include-
>
> * live video serving, saving to a disk for on-demand video at
> the same time
>
> * dynamically adjusting bandwidth requirments
>
> * no greater than 56K bandwidth consumed
>
> * ability to embed into HTML or Applets, complete with API
>
>
>The only catch for now is that it's only running on Win95 machines
>(or NT) with MAC and Solaris coming very soon. The actual server
>though runs on NT, Solaris, and a few other Unix boxes.
>
>In fact, I'm watching the Discovery channel as I write this, all
>over 28.8. Cool.
>
>
>Jason
>
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