Am 18.01.2011 18:11 schrieb Zachary Ozer:
Currently, there's no way to stop / limit the browser from buffering -
once you hit play, you start downloading and don't stop until the
resource is completely loaded. This is largely the same as Flash, save
the fact that some browsers don't respect the preload attribute. (Side
note: I also haven't found a browser that stops loading the resource
even if you destroy the video tag.)
There has been a version of JWplayer with a stop control (as I suggested
earlier in this thread for the user aspect of the topic). I set up a
demo page:
http://www.markusernst.ch/stuff_for_the_world/jwplayertest.html
If you click the stop button, playback is stopped, and the status bar
disappears. If you click the play button again, playback is started from
the beginning, and the status bar shows download being continued from
the point where the stop button has been clicked. So this player seems
to interrupt the download and resume it, when playback is restarted.
This looks like an intuitive and sensible behaviour to me, which could
both improve user experience and save server bandwidth. It could be
implemented independent from, and additionnally to the points discussed
in the original thread.
