darkgraysheep Posted June 18, 2005 Share Posted June 18, 2005 Thanks to David I got my blog up and running last week, now I have another question. I want to have a webcam, but I have no idea how much bandwith I would be using. I don't want to go over my limit. I have the silver account. So is there any way to calculate how much bandwidth a webcam might take up per hour? Thanks in advance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deverill Posted June 18, 2005 Share Posted June 18, 2005 That really depends on the frame rate and the quality of the camera. If you send 30 frames per second in full living color it could get huge fast. If you send 1 frame per 3 seconds in low res black and white you'd probably hardly notice it unless it was on all the time. It really varies too much to say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Bruce Posted June 18, 2005 Share Posted June 18, 2005 I have a webcam on my blog. I don't stream the feed to the blog just a static image every 10 minutes. It uses very little bandwidth that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkgraysheep Posted June 23, 2005 Author Share Posted June 23, 2005 Thanks both of you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellringr Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 Take a picture with your webcam, look at the size of the file it created, then multiply that by how many times an hour/day you'd be uploading the picture and that should give you a good estimate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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