Re: Streaming Video - OVER A 28.8 MODEM!!!

Mostafa Ammar (ammar@cc.gatech.edu)
Wed, 12 Feb 1997 13:30:51 -0500 (EST)

Also check out the new RealVideo player from the same people
that brought you RealAudio. www.real.com

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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