General Question

[Steve46902]

Hey guys, so far I like what you have to offer but one question comes to mind I havent seen answered.

how much bandwidth would one need to host the .mp3 players and/or videos? Is there any compression to these files to make it less intensive on the bandwidth? I understand hosting any audio or mp3's will use bandwidth, but with the right compression even the little 56k'ers could listen in without much hassle.

Im planning on switching my radio.blog player with yours if it offers better or even equal to bandwidth usage. The Radio.blog wasnt that bad and the compression on the files were good enough that even 56k players could listen to my files. I only have broadband btw.

Any help with this would be appreciated.

[antun]

For audio, the LPS adds very little to the original MP3 size so that it can be sent to the Flash player on the client - essentially your bandwidth requirements would be the same as if you had MP3 files that you were serving from your site directly.

For video, the compression format that the LPS uses is not as efficient as the newwer MPG or AVI formats, so the file sizes would be a little bit larger, and hence your bandwidth requirements would be a little larger too. However if you're currently using an older WMV format for example, then you'll find that the LPS is just as efficient.

The big tradeoff is that you can run video/audio off the LPS without a player download on virtually all platforms.

That brings up another point - the player is actually a Laszlo app - it's going to be the initial download. The ones on the Laszlo website are 168k, but it would be possible to write a smaller one. Also this would get cached by the browser, so the download would only happen once.

-Antun