I recently purchased a new TV (actually won, but that’s aside from the point). I put the DirecTV receiver on there and it worked like a charm. Then I put the Apple TV on and it appeared to work like a charm. But when the screensaver kicked in, the colors inverted. Sometimes I’d see lines across the screen and other times the Apple TV would get weird and just be blurry. I knew immediately that I was sending it too much. Turns out the new TV couldn’t do less than 1080p and the old Apple TV couldn’t do anything higher than 720p. To confirm, I looked up the serial number.…
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Xsan: Video Formats and Bandwidth
As many environments will use multiple formats it is important to define the required bandwidth for various formats. By lowering or increasing your format you will have the capacity to have more or less streams concurrently running against your SAN respectively: Standard Definition MiniDV, DVCAM, and DVCPRO – 3.6MBps DVCPRO 50 – 7.7MBps Uncompressed SD (8-bit) – 20MBps Uncompressed SD (10-bit) – 27MBps Compressed High Definition DVCPRO HD – 5.8MBps to 14MBps Apple ProRes 422 – 5.25 to 27.5 MBps Redcode RAW (24fps) – 28 MBps Uncompressed High Definition 720p 24fps – 46MBps 720p 30fps – 50MBps 720p 60fps – 100MBps 1080 24p (8-bit) – 98MBps 1080i (8-bit) – 120MBps…