Re:QuickTime GS movie of jet fighter uploaded to ground

[ericlob@cris.com (ericlob)]

Jeff Blakeney <CUTjefbla@bconnex.net> wrote:
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>If you were to drop to 20 - 24 frames per second, which is the maximum
>that the human eye can see, you would drop the size of the data to be
>transfered to 640 kb - 768 kb per second which gives a little more
>room to play with.

Um, this is completely wrong. I won't go into involved details, but
the human eye is more than capable of seeing 60 fps and beyond.

>If you only had to update the changed portions of the screen, you
>would end up having to transfer less data than the figures stated
>above which would give another speed boost.  If the data could be
>compressed on disk and decompressed quickly enough, which would
>probably require a math co-processor, it would help a great deal as
>well.

And that, more or less, is how digital video works. The data stream is
usually compressed also, but the bandwidth (and storage) requirements
would otherwise be too high.