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How does bitrate affect performance?

Hello,

If I can stream 200 streams at 1 mbps/stream (200 mbps), if I decrease the bitrate, let’s say at 200 kbps, will I be able to stream (close to) 1000 streams, or there are other factors that limit the number of concurrent streams? Is there a way to predict the ratio?

And how the bitrate we will stream should be considered when buying computer hardware?

For the most part it is purely a matter of bitrate. So yes, you should be able to stream many more lower bitrate files and the ratio is based on the bitrate of the files you are streaming.

Here are hardware suggestions:

  • More cpu cores is better than fewer faster cpu cores

  • I would get 1GB of RAM per core

  • Get 64 bit hardware so you can run a 64-bit OS

  • Get at least I 1Gbps network port

    I hope this helps.

    Charlie