Subject:saving for streaming

Posted by: leegaupp

Date:4/21/1999 5:51:44 AM

What are the best settings for saving to asf? I'm still
using Netshow server 3.0 and eventually will go to the 4.0
product, but right now I'm still learning. I have Acid
Music that I just bought and have played with the features
for 2 evenings. What I want to know is on the acid page at
www.sonicfoundry.com they have some samples that you can
listen to. What I'm creating to stream
http://techyard/dynip.com/peanut/heidiho.asf (for example)
takes a lot of buffering, even when setup on a true netshow
server. Not sure if it is my file in the way I set it up.
I'd like to know what asf settings you used to save the
hillbilly, living in the world, and sunday songs so that I
could produce good quality and still easily streamable
songs. I mainly create at home (no netshow server, just
http)and then use file at work on our intranet (which has a
netshow 3.0 server). I've made a good asx file here and it
still does a lot buffering on the local lan. Your sample
songs rocked right away when I clicked on them. My file is
400k and 30 secs roughly...how big are your sample songs?

Any advice would be appreciated, since I'm still trying to
bring in to perspective this whole creating the music, and
streaming the content thing...

Lee
Boise, Idaho

Subject:Re: saving for streaming

Reply by: Sonic_Curt

Date:4/21/1999 7:47:41 AM

Lee,

It's all about bandwidth... for example, if you want files to stream
well on
a 28.8 modem, you need to target a bit-rate of ~20 kbps. A 44 kHz,
16-bit,
stereo file that is 30 seconds long will end up being 78.6KB... down
from
the original ~5.1MB.

You have to accept trade-offs on sound quality when you target low
bandwidth
connections. Given your example, you probably saved to 128 kbps...
which
would require a Dual ISDN connection to stream properly..

-curt.