Typically, when we deploy Flash video solutions at The Iona Group, we go with a pretty high framerate, because much of it is for kiosk, intranet or CD based deployments… sometimes a high bitrate solitary video goes up for a showcase piece, etc, but we don’t yet have a standard framerate, etc we are using… How many FPS are large scale experience sites deploying at? Is FPS 30 too much? Is 12 FPS too few.

I know the 70-80% of available bandwidth rule, and I have a good idea how to handle alternate video feeds based on data rate connections. I guess I’m just kind missing the final piece of qualitative knowledge to judge what to use for a smooth playback that still looks good.

And yes, I understand that bitrate is¬† the product of “(width * height * framerate) / compression ratio”.

Does anyone out there have an A-B comparison to check out? What’s Youtube or Google Video sending out? I’m guessing 12 FPS.

Posted on May 25, 2007

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