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bbefilms
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16 years ago

why is buffering much faster with Netflix movies than mine?

The buffering issue still seems opaque to me. I've created SD videos with several different bitrates (1Mbs - 4Mbs) in H264 and it always seems to take forever to buffer the movie before playing; is th...
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bbefilms
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16 years ago
FYI, there's a great posting (from Netflix) about the specs of their streaming files here; both Amazon (who stream HD at 2.5mbs max) and Netflix (3.8mbs HD max) use the VC1 codec and not H264. I've tested extensively with H264 and will now be trying VC1 (the current level of buffering I'm seeing on high bitrate files is unusable).