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I am a web designer and have DSL. How can I know if my online WMV movies work for dial up users?

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2006-08-03 14:42:14, Category: Programming & Design
The WMV files are 2 to 4 and a half minutes long and range from 300KB to 1.64 MB.

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  1. ngufra

    On 2006-08-03 14:53:10


    dialup is usually at speed of 56 kbps, roughly 5 KB per second so about 300 KB per minute. Your 2 min clip will take 1 minute to load, so that should work, but the other one would take over 5 1/2 miuntes to load for a 4 1/2 minute clip, so it won't stream right. In Windows media encoder, you can specify the usage you are planning to get presets of encoding scheme.

  2. bryanjrobertson

    On 2006-08-03 14:59:13


    There's a tool here called Sloppy that'll emulate whatever bandwidth you specify for exactly this kind of testing: http://www.dallaway.com/sloppy/index.html That page there shows a screenshot of it working under Mac OS but it's a cross-platform Java app so as long as you've got Java installed it'll work on your machine no matter what OS you're running.