Website bandwidth usage quesion + you tube

egan007

Hi

If I imbed a you tube video on my website
i.e. hosted on you tube and played through my site using the link they provide
Does this eat up my bandwidth?

Chardee MacDennis

nope its just a link to youtube. shouldnt use much if any for this.

egan007

Ok thanks al

Kudos

Call_me_al wrote:

nope its just a link to youtube. shouldnt use much if any for this.

It doesn't use any at all. Zero.

Rollo Tamasi

Kudos wrote:

It doesn't use any at all. Zero.

Not true.
It uses a tiny percent. The dozen or so lines of code you use to embed the player will consume some of your bandwith. But I'm being pedantic

Kudos

Rollo Tamasi wrote:

Not true.
It uses a tiny percent. The dozen or so lines of code you use to embed the player will consume some of your bandwith. But I'm being pedantic

300 bytes is pretty pedantic, 10000 views would be 7megs bandwidth, I'd call that zero, relatively speaking.

Seth Brundle

Rollo Tamasi wrote:

Not true.
It uses a tiny percent. The dozen or so lines of code you use to embed the player will consume some of your bandwith. But I'm being pedantic

Dozen lines? What are you coding? e.g.

<object width="425" height="350">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZQ8b3gkArK8"></param>
<param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param>
<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZQ8b3gkArK8" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed>
</object>

egan007

Jeeeeez lads Call_me_al answered it one line!