Streaming media hosts generally price services based on the amount of disk space required to store your files. If you don't know how much disk space your streaming media files require, it will be difficult to figure out what size package you should subscribe to. A few simple calculations can help you figure out the right package size. It'll save you money and prevent you from signing up for an account that is too small to host your media. Before you begin, you'll need a basic understanding of bit rates and bytes.
Bit rate describes a file's transmission speed.
Media players usually express bit rate in Kbps, the abbreviation for kilobits per second. The abbreviation KBps is used for kilobytes per second. When you encode a media clip, you designate the bit rate. To make media clips accessible to 56 Kbps modem users, you should encode files at 40 Kbps because few 56 Kbps modems actually connect at 56 Kbps. For users with high-speed access, encode at 100 Kbps.