calculating bandwidth required to stream vidoes

[AffiliateDreamer]

Hi,

I want to get an idea of how much bandwidth is required to stream videos.

Say my videos range in size, anywhere from 2MB to 30MB.

If I get a server that allows for 2000 GIGS a month, how can I predict the amount of online users my server can handle? say this server is dedicated to video serving only.....

[joaquin112]

do some math... Gosh. Shouldn't be too hard.

30 MBs/video.
X number of videos transfered
2000 Gbs transfer

30X = 2000000MBs
X = 2000000/30
X = 66666 videos you can broadcast.

66666/30 = 2222 videos/day. That is of course if all the videos are 30 MBs which shouldn't be the case, but anyway maybe 2000-5000 videos/day.

How many visitors? Say each visitor watches 10 videos on average... you can have anywhere from 200 - 500 visitors. It's 4 AM so if I'm wrong anywhere, whatever.

I was bored, so I did it for you...

[AffiliateDreamer]

hehe...i could have done that math myself also. I just thought it was more complicated in terms of what sort of transfer rate I would need. I'm not sure how streaming works and the amount of bandwidth it eats up per second etc. (since the flow of data doesn't seem to be even throughout the 30 second clip as it seems to buffer and download before the 30 seconds is completed).