On 11/27/10 8:48 AM, Rickles wrote: > Using Moz 2.0.10 on XP Pro (Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; > Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.15) Gecko/20101027 SeaMonkey/2.0.10) > > I've been experiencing something for some time now that I don't get: > clicking on a web site's link to a piece of streaming video pulls the > video down, but it's not quite right. As an example, the BBC does a lot > of video feeds from their BBC iPlayer setup, links can be found at > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news. Clicking on a link gives you a spinning dots > circle while the connection is made, but then the video starts. And > then stops after about 3 seconds, then restarts and plays through > normally. It's that stop-restart that's puzzling me. > > I've run various BBC web sites through the W3C Validator, and they come > up clean. I'm using the latest drivers for my chipset and video card. > I've changed hardware acceleration settings, but no help. > > I've updated to the newest Flash Player, specifically choosing the > 'other browsers' option. If anything, it's made things worse. The > delay between start-stop-restart is longer now than before. And > re-playing the same clips doesn't change it either--caching doesn't > appear to be playing a part. > > Any ideas? >
The delay might be caused by slow delivery from the BBC server (possibly busy delivering to more viewers than it was designed to handle), Internet congestion, a slow Internet connection at your end, or an attempt by your viewer to start showing the video before the view is fully loaded and initialized. I get such delays when the feed delivers video slower than my viewer displays it. I view what has been delivered. Then, there is a pause while more is delivered. This was especially bad when I had dial-up. With broadband (a cable modem), I still sometimes see this but only from slow servers. If your viewer has such an option, try setting it to delay until 30-60 seconds of download has been received and held in its buffer. However, many viewers do not have such an option. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> On occasion, I might filter and ignore all newsgroup messages posted through GoogleGroups via Google's G2/1.0 user agent because of spam from that source. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
