How Much Storage Space is Needed for a 1-Minute Archive? How Much Storage Space is Needed for a 1-Minute Archive?

How Much Storage Space is Needed for a 1-Minute Archive?

Vonage API Support

Question

What is the required storage space for archiving a 1-minute video?

Applies To

  • Vonage Video API
  • Archiving

Answer

While it is challenging to provide an exact value for storing 1 minute of archive data, we conducted several tests to derive an approximate value. These results are intended as a reference point for calculating the required storage space in your setup. 

Note: It is important to consider that this value may vary, either increasing or decreasing, depending on factors such as your specific use case, number of streams, frame rate, and network speed, layout etc.

Composed Archive 

All the following tests were conducted using one-to-one video interactions at 30 fps and best-fit layout.

Archive Resolution Archive size per minute(In MB)
640x480 (SD Landscape) 12

1280x720 (HD Landscape)		 40

1920x1080 (FHD Landscape)		 80

480x640 (SD Portrait)		 7

720x1280 (HD Portrait)		 10

1080x1920 (FHD portrait)		 28

 

Individual Archive

Publisher Resolution Archive size per minute(In MB)
640x480 16
1280x720 50
1920x1080 85

When using individual archive, all media received at the archive server is written directly to file, without inspection or post-processing.
As a result, the archive will retain the same resolution as the original publisher's stream.

Archive size mentioned above represents the size of ZIP container file with multiple individual media files for each stream, and a JSON metadata file for video synchronisation. 

Additional Information

For more insights on archiving, please refer our developer documentations below.

How to recognise if I'm using Vonage Video API Unified Environment or Vonage Video API OpenTok environment?

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