Playing a viedo on the net

[Duane]

What can I do to get a viedo to play continually. It plays and stops and
loads every minuate or so. most of the time in a shorter time. (In seconds)

XP Pro all udates current

 

[VanguardLH]

What can I do to get a viedo to play continually. It plays and stops and
loads every minuate or so. most of the time in a shorter time. (In seconds)

XP Pro all udates current

If you are playing the video from the web site, likely it is streamed to
your host so you get the bytes as they are delivered at whatever
interval the server decides. You would have to either download the
video (if right-clicking on it lets you use Save As and you get the
video file instead of some HTML or script page that deliveres the
content) or use a video capture utility to save the video as a local
file. Then you can play the local file in a video player that has an
option to auto-repeat.

 

[Paul]

What can I do to get a viedo to play continually. It plays and stops and
loads every minuate or so. most of the time in a shorter time. (In seconds)

XP Pro all udates current

Say that your network connection works at 100KB/sec, and the video
playback rate is 200KB/sec. In that case, the network connection
is half as fast as it needs to be. In such a situation, the
player application will "buffer" for ten seconds, then play video for
five seconds or so, then buffer for ten seconds and so on. The buffering
is needed, to grab enough data to play smoothly, but for a short
interval. The buffer will eventually run out of data, and the fill
rate is not fast enough to keep up. That makes for "jerky" playback.

On some players, if you wait until the entire movie has been downloaded,
and then click the button to play it again, the entire movie has been
stored in system memory, and will then play normally.

The most straight-forward solution, is a faster Internet connection.

But it isn't always your Internet connection that is at fault. There
could be congestion in the middle of the network, and everyone
is experiencing jerky playback. Or, there could be a problem
with the player application itself, or with your hardware. If
you can get *some* web site to deliver a movie smoothly, then
you might blame a particular web site for working poorly. If
no movie will play back smooth, it could be the speed of
your Internet connection, or a performance issue with your
computer.

I had a situation once, where playback acceleration on the video
card was disabled. And that made the movie playback jerky, as
the pixels were being transferred to the screen. The computer
simply couldn't paint the frames fast enough, to keep up. It
would occasionally have to throw some frames away, which would
cause the motion on the screen to be jerky.

( Example of a control in Windows, that controls acceleration )
http://www.visualwin.com/DirectX/troubleshoot-acceleration-full.png

So you really have to examine your situation carefully, to
decide what kind of fault you're dealing with. It sounds
like you have a slow network connection, but it could be
something else.

Paul

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

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