Forum Discussion
Solved
Does the Original Video Quality affect Playback or Bandwidth Used?
I'm familiar w/ YouTube's abominable compression tactics to reduce file size. As I'm using Stream (on SharePoint) I realize that behind the scenes, the original files are preserved. Cool! Bu...
- You shouldn't have to worry about the originals encoding. We try and it intelligently stream it. Sometimes we might use the original if it's small enough but if it's not we transcode it on the fly to optimize the playback experience. However, we aren't handling really high bitrate and resolution videos so intelligently today but we are working on that now.
Marc Mroz
Microsoft
MicrosoftYou shouldn't have to worry about the originals encoding. We try and it intelligently stream it. Sometimes we might use the original if it's small enough but if it's not we transcode it on the fly to optimize the playback experience. However, we aren't handling really high bitrate and resolution videos so intelligently today but we are working on that now.
great, thanks for the insight!