Buffering

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Not sure where this belongs, so it's here. There are times when I am
watching a streaming video and it buffers to 100% and then buffers again and
again. What causes that? Is there something I can change to have it buffer
once?
 
hgopp99 said:
Not sure where this belongs, so it's here. There are times when I am
watching a streaming video and it buffers to 100% and then buffers
again and again. What causes that? Is there something I can change
to have it buffer once?
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Video, like audio, requires a constant rate in order to be intelligible (to
the human). The internet, however, in general doesn't deliver data at a
constant rate. One way to handle constant bit rate (CBR) applications is to
buffer up enough data so that it can be throttled out at a constant rate
without having the buffer underflow (or overflow but this can also handled
other ways). Yes, you can buffer everything once at the expense of waiting
for all the data before viewing/listening to it. This works for one way
data transfers but not well if it's interactive, or two-way like full duplex
voice/video.
 
I appreciate the information and what I am interested in, at this time does
relate to one-way data transfers. When I pull some video up from the web and
it presents it's screen, the buffering begins and goes to 100%, but then
rebuffers over and over again. I was wondering if there are some items that
can be configured to make this buffer the whole thing at once.
 
hgopp99 said:
I appreciate the information and what I am interested in, at this
time does relate to one-way data transfers. When I pull some video
up from the web and it presents it's screen, the buffering begins and
goes to 100%, but then rebuffers over and over again. I was
wondering if there are some items that can be configured to make this
buffer the whole thing at once.
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If a setting exists, it's probably application dependent. Try looking in
properties or options of the application you use to watch/stream videos for
something related to buffering.
 
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