[Icecast] Bandwidth Calculations

[Paul Martin]

On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 11:26:54AM +0200, Scott Winterstein wrote:
> OK if I go with say HE-AAC or Opus, can I still encode as mp3? I am
> using Butt as my source encoding. Can Butt be configured to encode
> using these codecs instead of their codecs its defaulted to?
> 
> Still a bit unclear on the method to calculate a 128k stream with
> 6,000 GB available bandwidth over 30 days to give an estimated average
> user connections possible.

Assume 128kbps becomes 20kbyte/s after TCP encapsulation.

A back-of-the envelope calculation would be

(6000 [GB] * (1024 * 1024)) / (20 [kbyte/s] * (365 * 86400 / 12) )

= 119.7 users, continually streaming 24/7 for the whole month.


(There are 86400 seconds in a day)

-- 
Paul Martin <pm at nowster.me.uk>