Videos are missing Web Connections

We have been asked about videos, currently it is impossible to publish videos here. 
We cannot serve all visitors, if we do so. There would be long breaks and queues to the site. 

One High Quality video with a tag 720 or 1024 needs around 10 Mbps server capacity. Per visitor.

The same system goes with your network connection. Before you can watch DVD quality videos from your computer, smoothly without breaks, you need 10 Mbps connection. The connection speed must be over 6.5 mbps, and 10 Mbps is recommended for DVD plays. The additional capacity is used for buffering the video.

10 Mbps connection speed is enough for one computer. DVD quality videos are the most demanding things in the web. If you have two computers connected to the web. For the simultaneous DVD plays, you need 20 Mbps connection for parents and kids. When you and your family watches 3 DVD videos at the same time you need 30 Mbps connection, and so on.

Buying more than 10 Mbps connection for a single computer is merely a waste of money. You get benefit from the faster connection only then, when you upload big DVD files ( or other big files ) to your computers hard disk.

The Blue Ray quality which is very rare in web, needs 40 Mbps connection. The same speed is needed for watching digital video footage from camcorders.

? Although the requirements are equal, video standards for Blue Ray do not support DV format. So, you cannot just copy and watch your DV video clips with Blue Ray players. They must be converted to some supported Blue Ray format first. Dropping the most popular video format of the world, DV-videos, and taking some poor quality packers to the standard, is very typical for a certain kind of really bright people. My Documents are My Documents and Monkey Businesses are My Businesses. D-Html-5 is only a continuation to the selected free style.

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Currently it is impossible to publish videos here :

- One network-cable system can serve 100 visitors at the time. During the rush hours and days visitors counts per day are few millions. During the day visitor flow is not steady. For the peaks the required capacity is around one million.

- It means that the underlying server system would need around 10 000 network card-cable systems. To one PC it s possible to install 3 to 4 network cards. The system would need 3 000 to 5 000 small PC servers, in various locations all around the world, so that the network is not locally overloaded by the traffic.

- During the rush hours the site system is already having small difficulties with current contents. Video files are app 5 times bigger than music files, and app 50 times bigger than picture files.

- The network cards and outlets to the web are almost the only requirements for servers. File transfers are the only activities in R&D servers. When you for example play Remember Me game, after the board becomes available for you, the connection to the servers is cut. You play the game with your own computer, and it's web-browser.

- The system remains unchanged after the possibility to save game and other data becomes available. Currently under construction. The tight privacy policy makes the servers simple and the server load minimal.

Old P3 and P4 computers would suit well for the Octopus servers. They have enough power and capabilities for providing files to visitors. On the other hand power consumption of the P4 and P3 is far more smaller than in newer computers. It is only 1/3 from the new computers. P3 computers have already "awake from network activity" functionality, so the computers which are reserved for the peaks, can be suspended during the  quiet times.

Octopus name comes from the way the site-server system is attached to web. There are very many "long" wires and points from where the Octopus site-server is connected to web. When you use Octopus with multiple server computers, there is one main server, which sends the new contents to other servers. The domains have a sharing standard, with what you can use a single domain with multiple servers. 

Most of the ASP and CGI applications are also so light, that they run in the old P3 and P4 computers. Recycling the old computers is cheap, the fully old P4 costs around 20 to 30 euros. Recycling lengthens the life of the computers quite a lot.

Jack