Re: Streaming video and Download limits

On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 19:25:32 +0100, "Matt Wheeler"
<spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> opined, with wit and/or wisdom,:

>
>"Jonathan Shapiro" <jls@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:rvod5ol4uol.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> I know this has come up before, but I don't recall a resolution. Has
>> anyone figured out how many MBs are downloaded when watching a game
>> on
>> MLBTV? The reason I ask is NTL will upgrade my slow broadband
>> service
>> for free, but at a penalty of a 3G per month cap on downloads.
>> Currently, there is no cap, although the speed is too slow to watch
>> live games. I can still watch games on replay by setting the buffer
>> high enough, which is good enough for me. Will I regret upgrading, I
>> wonder, especially in October.
>>
>
>The Windows Media player feed I watch reports as 350Kbits per Second
>(i assume the real player feed is the same).
>Most games are about 3 hours, although some (like the game i'm
>watching from last night right now) last longer (esp if there are rain
>delays or go to extra innings).
>
>But, over 3 hours that would be approx 3780000 bits over the 3 hours.
>Divide by 8 to get it in Bytes.... gives 472500 bytes
>Gives roughly 450 Megabytes (when you divide by 1024). ( i think).
>
>So you'll probably need to move to one of their tariffs with a 30GB
>monthly download limit, as otherwise you'll just get 2 games per
>month.
>
>
>If my maths is a bit flaky, please let me know.

Not got my original answer to hand, but that sounds pretty much spot
on (in practice I think the 350k quoted speed is a max, as when I've
started up Newsbin while watching a game it often still downloads at
all but about 200k of my speed, so the size may be a bit lower.) The
good news is that when NTHell upgrades a line to 10Mb it will also
increase the monthly limit from 30GB to 75GB, which means you could
then watch mlb.tv all day long without worrying ;-)
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