KenK said:
Is it possible to watch a web site video with a dialup connection that runs
35 - 40 Kbps with XP Home through Firefox? Never tried as I need to DL
required software. Would it work? Anyone know of anyone who ever tried it?
TIA
This depends on the situation.
At one time, the protocols and player code, allowed "caching".
That means, a video on the web, would eventually be fully
downloaded and stored in disk cache. If you moved the
slider in the movie player back to the beginning, the
streaming video would then be playing using the disk
cache. But that was too easy, so some idiots had to
ruin that feature.
Not all player software allows that. Some of the
popular sites, when you move the slider backwards,
they start streaming all over again, and *throw out*
the cached content. It is for these kinds of sites,
that your 40Kbps situation is hopeless.
What you need to research, is one of the many
"movie downloader" tools or sites. With your low
Kbps available, you want an alternative method that
allows one "total download", followed by viewing at
your leisure. Even if you have to wait an hour
for the whole video to show up.
Appropriate tools for totally downloading have
been discussed here before, but I neither test
nor collect them here. Good luck in your search.
*******
With my ISP, movie playback is being slowed down
on purpose. So I just don't watch that much video.
I'm not going to waste my time trying to circumvent
all the barriers they've put there. Screw them!
Even if I lived in Kansas, and had Google Fiber,
some idiot out there would *still* find a way
to ruin my video experience. And... that's how
the world works. Even Bill Gates sees "buffering...",
when he watches videos
Paul
