Originally Posted by VGeorgie

I know you asked for other opinions, but I should add this: Trying to match size is the bass ackwards way of doing it. You match the bandwidth of your most average users, then work from there. As I said, it makes no sense to stream high-bitrate video to consumers who can't handle it. 10MB/per minute assumes a 1+mbps connection. Most anyone on broadband has this, but not everyone has broadband.

So you either provide lower bitrate (and therefore resolution) links, or use a streaming server that adjusts the bitrate to the bandwidth your users can consume.

Targeting a specific file size is the thinking we did when downloading videos were king. It just doesn't work that way for streaming video, even though there are lots of people that try to do it this way.