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1Mbps for video is rule of thumb I use. Of course that will depend on customer expectations. 500K can work, but it won’t be pretty.

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For normal video I think that's a good rule of thumb.

For mostly-static content at 4fps you can cut a bunch more bitrate corners before it looks bad. (And 2-3 JPEGs per second won't even look good at 1Mbps.)

>> 10Mbps is still way too high of a minimum. It's more than YouTube uses for full motion 4k.

> And 2-3 JPEGs per second won't even look good at 1Mbps.

Unqualified claims like these are utterly meaningless. It depends too much on exactly what you're doing, some sorts of images will compress much better than others.

For mostly static content like screencasts by dropping duplicate frames and producing variable framerate h.264 yuv444 videos with lossless encoding I was getting <100 kbps files for 1024x768 resolution more than a decade ago.

I can confirm that 500Kbps is not pretty. But when I'm sending screen recordings where text doesn't have to be readable (or isn't present), I try to approach 500K from above.

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