Join Early Retirement Today
Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Choppy Streamed Video
Old 07-20-2011, 10:08 AM   #1
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
TromboneAl's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 12,880
Choppy Streamed Video

Recently, almost all the streamed flash video I watch online has a significant number of pauses and delays (presumably for rebuffering). I've tried all the standard fixes (Slow Streaming Video Problems), but the problem remains.

Any other ideas?
__________________
Al
TromboneAl is offline   Reply With Quote
Join the #1 Early Retirement and Financial Independence Forum Today - It's Totally Free!

Are you planning to be financially independent as early as possible so you can live life on your own terms? Discuss successful investing strategies, asset allocation models, tax strategies and other related topics in our online forum community. Our members range from young folks just starting their journey to financial independence, military retirees and even multimillionaires. No matter where you fit in you'll find that Early-Retirement.org is a great community to join. Best of all it's totally FREE!

You are currently viewing our boards as a guest so you have limited access to our community. Please take the time to register and you will gain a lot of great new features including; the ability to participate in discussions, network with our members, see fewer ads, upload photographs, create a retirement blog, send private messages and so much, much more!

Old 07-20-2011, 07:42 PM   #2
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
easysurfer's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 13,130
Don't know about live streaming videos.

But for videos like on Youtube that slow down and buffer again and again, I start to play it, then press pause to let it finish buffering in the background. While it's buffering I open another tabbed browser window to continue surfing or just find something else to do for a few minutues while the buffering finishes. When I finally return and press play, the video plays without anymore buffering.
__________________
Have you ever seen a headstone with these words
"If only I had spent more time at work" ... from "Busy Man" sung by Billy Ray Cyrus
easysurfer is online now   Reply With Quote
Old 07-21-2011, 06:11 AM   #3
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
FIRE'd@51's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 2,433
In your link it mentions clearing your web cache; but it doesn't mention checking to see if the cache size is set too small, and if necessary, increase it.
__________________
I'd rather be governed by the first one hundred names in the telephone book than the Harvard faculty - William F. Buckley
FIRE'd@51 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-21-2011, 01:40 PM   #4
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Onward's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2009
Posts: 1,934
Quote:
Originally Posted by TromboneAl View Post
Any other ideas?
Some new devices on your network hogging your bandwidth? Friendly neighbors "borrowing" your Wi-Fi signal?
__________________
And if I claim to be a wise man, it surely means that I don't know.
Onward is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-21-2011, 01:48 PM   #5
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
TromboneAl's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 12,880
Thanks, I just increased the size of the cache from 50 to 100 MB.

Today I was watching the Tour de France (here). I noticed that the streaming wasn't too bad early in the race, but as it got towards the finish, the streaming got worse and worse. Right after the finish, it improved dramatically. So, I conclude that the servers just had trouble keeping up with demand as more viewers tuned in towards the end of the race.

__________________
Al
TromboneAl is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply


Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
 
Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are Off
Pingbacks are Off
Refbacks are Off


» Quick Links

 
All times are GMT -6. The time now is 07:00 PM.
 
Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.8 Beta 1
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.