How long I’ve to wait for view my streaming (youtube, megavideo) online movie without stops?
Well is pretty simple, you just have to know two things:
* The lenght of the streaming in seconds.
* The proportion between your bandwith rate (Kb/s) and the streaming encoded bitrate (Kb/s).
The first is trivial to get, for the second we can get it indirectly.
That proportion bandwith/bitrate is the same proportion that the inverse of the delay time you have to wait between a stop and a resume.
So the time you have to wait for buffer fill enought to view the movie flawlessly is:
buffertime = movielength (1 – 1/(delay))
Example:
I want to view a movie witch length is 1:39:17 that’s 17s + (39m x 60s/m) + (1h x 3600s/h) = 5957s
I’ve detected 5 seconds between an stop and a resume, so I need to wait:
5957s x (1 – 1/5) = 5957s x (1 – 0.2) = 5957s x (0.8) = 4765s = 1:19:25
Then I have to wait the buffer fill 80% of the bar to view my movie without stops. Meanwhile I can be doing some popcorn and not wast my time waiting front the screen!
I hope be usefull. 🙂
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