Fedora TV, the video quandary, and a request for advice (fwd)

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 13:01 -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> 
> > Just to give you an idea... my 2 minute curling video that I made.. is
> > 500 megs of uncompressed dv and its down to 6 megs as a theora video
> > when editted down with pitivi.
> 
> We can compe up with some arbitrary numbers and see how they scale in 
> practice.  Let's say 3-5 meg per minute of footage -- a terabyte gives us 
> many, many hours.  

it gives us 3333 hours. (more or less)

> The real question is, how much bandwidth would that 
> consume if a video got super-popular?

all of it.
-sv