David E. Ross wrote:
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.
The viewer has no such settings for download delays, etc. And the
stop-restart only occurs at the very start. There's no lags or hiccups
at any point during playback, regardless of how long the video is. And
it doesn't matter what time of day, either, which suggests its not a
server workload issue.
I'm in the UK with the BBC, but the same behavior shows up if I play
something from, say, a newspaper site in Ohio in the US. Round-trip
pings to sites in the UK average 10-35ms, where pings to US sites from
the UK average 180ms. My internet connection speed tests to around
6Mbps on average, as well.
The BBC reference was just one example, but it's not the only site that
I see this with. Oh well, guess I just have to live with it.
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