From: Nicholas Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to avoid re-buffering?
There is pretty much no way you can avoid buffering a streamed presentation
when you seek forward. Why? Because the data has to come from a server on
the internet and arrive at the person's computer before the content can be
presented and because the data is compressed a certain amount of it needs
to arrive before playback can resume.
The only ways to solve this are:
1) increase the user's bandwidth
2) eliminate compression
3) use local file playback instead of network playback
My suspicion is that if your users can seek through your Quicktime and AVI
media without needing to rebuffer, then they are doing some form of local
playback. (eg: downloading the file to a browser cache and playing it
locally.)
At 08:20 AM 4/7/00 -0700, RealForum wrote:
>From: "Jonathan Atkinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: How to avoid re-buffering?
>
>Hello,
>
>I've been using RealVideo on my website for a while now, and I really like
>it. I'd like to use it on my site exclusively, but the visitors to my
>website have one big problem with it: Every time they want to fast forward
>or rewind, the video clip has to re-buffer. That's really unacceptable for
>someone who wants to jump around or pause and advance frame by frame.
>
>My question is: Is there any way to create a clip that doesn't have to
>re-buffer, or is there maybe an advanced version of the real player that
>enables the client to avoid rebuffering clips?
>
>I've been using RealVideo in conjunction with AVI and Quicktime, but I'd
>like to narrow it down to one format. And I'd like it to be RealVideo, since
>it seems to have the best quality video with the smallest file sizes, and
>it's so universally compatible.
>
>I'd really appreciate any advice you can give. Thank you very much.
>
>Sincerely,
>Jonathan Atkinson
>www.ballroomdancers.com
>
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