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Aielyn on 17 August 2014
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Kaizar said:
Aielyn said:
540p has (for 16:9 resolution) about 520k pixels. 240p has (for a 5:3 resolution that the 3DS's upper screen has) about 96k pixels. Even if we assume that audio takes up a huge 100 MB, and is in no way compressed relative to the original, you'd expect the result to be about 240 MB, not 500 MB.


I said LESS then 500 MB.

i DIDN'T say 500 MB.

The movies on the 3DS will most likely have tiny black bars, like streaming Netflix on 3DS has.

Anyways I don't know details other then the 3D smartphone copy of The Green Hornet is around 850 MB for HTC EVO 3D.

So can you give Mii a more better estimate, since you seem to be really knowledgable about this stuff?

Sorry for my lack of knowledge.

I don't know a massive amount. I just know that the space required will be close to proportional to the number of pixels, with the exception of the audio (for obvious reasons). It won't be exactly proportional, because of compression effects, but it should be pretty close. And the reason why I pointed out 240 MB rather than 500 MB is that I'd expect that you guessed it based on 520p being a little over twice the size of 240p, a conclusion that is easy to accidentally come to when you just look at 520/240... but in reality, it's not the number of pixel rows, but total number of pixels that will control the size.