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Old 2009-04-15, 05:25   Link #89
bayoab
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Originally Posted by 0utf0xZer0 View Post
CR's streams are H.264 based... the exact same technology used to encode a lot of modern fansubs. The streaming version is often smaller, but that's because it's more compressed, which eats into image quality. Fansubbers could also reduce file sizes if they were willing to sacrifice image quality.
"Lower bitrate" is probably a more accurate way to describe it than "more compressed". It doesn't always eat into visual quality as the quality vs bitrate curve isn't linear and most fansubs are aiming for a specific size and forgoing compressibility.

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Direct download or IRC, however, would consume the same amount of bandwidth as streaming.
For the same file content, yes. However, as you said prior, streaming files are frequently smaller due to a much lower bitrate. You can typically download a streaming version of a show multiple (2-4x) times and still use less bandwidth than a fansub.
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