Microsoft 1080p streaming tech

[thecremeegg]

http://www.iis.net/media/experiencesmoothstreaming1080p

Give that a go, works amazingly well

Sorry if its a repost

 

[Robert1986]

Bitrate is waaaaaaaaay too low. For it to be a decent 1080p picture, the bit rate would need to be 3-4 times what it is now.

 

[thecremeegg]

Thats true but on my crappy 2Mbit it works great, a lot better quality than any other streams plus no buffering. Hope its implemented into more website streams

 

[~J~]

Thats true but on my crappy 2Mbit it works great, a lot better quality than any other streams plus no buffering. Hope its implemented into more website streams

We've used it at work since October, delivering realtime video streams around the UK.

But I'm afraid it's a Microsoft product, and despite it's power and speed, people will diss it 'cos it's cool to be anti-M$ 5uxx0r and all that.

 

[Raikiri]

It's very good, however the issue here is our ISPs and not the tech.

Streaming a movie at decent quality (4 mbit) will be about 3.6gb (120 mins).

 

[Robert1986]

1080p movies with a bitrate or around 10k are around 8-16gb.

 

[simo182]

I think MS said in a press conference afterwards that you will need atleast an 8mbit connection for it to work properly.

 

[thecremeegg]

Yea as has been said, the speed of our network needs to increase as do the caps on downloads. Some people are living with 5-10Gb caps which will be gone after one movie!
For me however, it provided a great picture considering my internet speed

 

[chrisxuk]

Does look nice, although i did feel quite sad when that butterfly got squashed

 

[RichieM]

Does look nice, although i did feel quite sad when that butterfly got squashed

SPOILER!!!11!!

I actually lol'd in places, great vid and tech demo (Sky's Max Unlimited is handy )

 

[jamie2497]

Ran super smooth here, very impressed!

Very harsh on the butterfly though !

 

[interspaced]

Ran super smooth here, very impressed!

Very harsh on the butterfly though !

screwed up film

 

[wannabedamned]

Wow, Thats impressive for low speed connections

 

[Strife212]

Plays perfectly here, it will rape the bandwith if everyone starts using stuff like this, they're going to have to improve the UK network.

 

[JUMPURS]

Plays perfectly here, it will rape the bandwith if everyone starts using stuff like this, they're going to have to improve the UK network.

The UK network? The US is gonna come to a standstill.

 

[Kyle009]

Very good piece of tech. Ran great on Virgin 20 Meg (to be expected though I guess!)

 

[wannabedamned]

Just wish ISPs would figure out that these caps they are placing are going to seriously limit us

 

[Psymonkee]

sound is all messed up for me

 

[Demon]

Bitrate is waaaaaaaaay too low. For it to be a decent 1080p picture, the bit rate would need to be 3-4 times what it is now.

Nah....


I've messed around a lot with re-encoding my BR/HD-DVD collection, and have a 1080p projector on a 108" screen, and have found 10-12Mbit to be indistinguishable on all counts to a BR, and even down at 5MBit, it's surprisingly good.

The beauty of the new x264/AVC codecs is that you don't loose any resolution on 'fixed' images, so it always looks really sharp, its the fast moving action that suffers, and it gracefully degrades with more 'smoothing' applied, but you have to look really close to see it most of the time, and since most TV's have poor processing etc, you inevitably loose some fidelity in this department anyway.. of course animated stuff is best, and probably why they chose it as a demo.. Kung Fu Panda at 5Mbit average looks amazing..

I totally agree that I'd want around 10Mbit with 1.5Mbit audio streams to deem it totally acceptable to me, but I have no doubt quite a few people can benefit from 5Mbit streamed 1080p and be thoroughly impressed..

 

[NightSt@lk3r]

Just wish ISPs would figure out that these caps they are placing are going to seriously limit us

Even most Unlimited packages have fair use policy's