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One free scan finds every outdated or missing driver and matches the right update for your exact hardware.Free scan · exact hardware matchIf you’re watching a YouTube Live property tour loop on a home PC, your computer is downloading the video. A useful estimate is about 0.45 decimal GB per hour for every 1 Mbps of sustained video bitrate. The exact amount depends on the stream’s actual bitrate and your playback quality; YouTube’s recommended connection speeds are only rough planning proxies, not guaranteed data-use figures.
Estimate data use while watching
Use this conversion for a sustained bitrate: data in decimal GB ≈ bitrate in Mbps × hours watched × 0.45. One megabit per second over an hour transfers about 450 megabytes, using 8 bits per byte.
| Hypothetical sustained bitrate | Approximate data per hour |
|---|---|
| 2.5 Mbps | 1.125 GB |
| 5 Mbps | 2.25 GB |
These are arithmetic examples, not measurements of a particular property-tour stream. For a similar bitrate, two hours uses roughly twice the data of one hour.
Use YouTube’s quality guidance as a planning proxy
YouTube Help recommends sustained connection speeds for playback formats. Those recommendations describe network requirements, not a promise that the stream will transfer at that exact bitrate. The estimates below apply the 0.45 conversion to those recommended speeds, so treat them as rough planning equivalents rather than measured YouTube usage. YouTube’s published page does not display a publication year.
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| Playback format | YouTube-recommended sustained speed | Approximate equivalent per hour |
|---|---|---|
| 360p | 0.7 Mbps | 0.3 GB |
| 480p | 1.1 Mbps | 0.5 GB |
| 720p | 2.5 Mbps | 1.1 GB |
| 1080p | 5 Mbps | 2.25 GB |
| 4K UHD | 20 Mbps | 9 GB |
Source for the recommended speeds: YouTube Help: System requirements and supported devices for YouTube. The per-hour equivalents are calculations, not YouTube data-use measurements.
Why actual playback data varies
YouTube says playback quality can change based on internet speed, player or screen size, the original video quality, and browser. On a computer, you can select quality manually in the player; see YouTube Help: Change the quality of your video – Computer. Even when you select a resolution, the actual transfer depends on the encoded stream, so a resolution label alone cannot give an exact data total.
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- Selected quality: Higher-quality playback generally needs more bandwidth, but the speed recommendations are not exact stream bitrates.
- Time watched: Longer playback uses more data in proportion to time if the bitrate remains similar.
- Stream variation: A live stream’s received bitrate may differ from the broadcaster’s encoder setting because YouTube transcodes live streams into viewer output formats.
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If the home PC is watching the tour, the video traffic is primarily download. If the PC is sending a live tour through an encoder, it is primarily upload, and the relevant setting is the configured outgoing bitrate. Do not substitute a creator’s encoder bitrate for a viewer’s received bitrate.
YouTube’s H.264 live encoder recommendations include 5 Mbps for 1080p at 30 fps and 3 Mbps for 720p at 30 fps. These are ingestion settings for creators, not viewer playback rates. YouTube recommends sufficient outbound bandwidth and leaving 20% room; on a shared connection, other activity can reduce what is available to the encoder. See YouTube Help: Choose live encoder settings, bitrates, and resolutions and YouTube Help: Streaming tips.
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Measure your own loop for a precise estimate
- Start the property-tour loop on the home PC and set the playback quality you expect to use.
- Note the PC’s or router’s network-usage counter at the start of a timed interval.
- Let the loop play for a known duration, then note the counter again.
- Subtract the starting figure from the ending figure. If you want an hourly estimate, divide by the interval in hours and account for other network activity during the test.
This practical measurement captures your particular playback session and connection; it is not a YouTube-prescribed test. For the closest estimate, avoid other large downloads or streams during the interval.
Don’t apply YouTube’s mobile-streaming rule to PC viewing
YouTube Help says, “A good rule of thumb is that the stream will use about 10 MB of data per 1 minute of stream.” That statement appears in mobile filming guidance, so it should not be treated as a guaranteed rate for a PC watching a live tour. The same guidance distinguishes inbound from outbound bandwidth and recommends Ethernet for computer live streamers. See YouTube Help: Filming tips – Live and YouTube Help: computer live-stream recommendations.
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