Streaming Videos...!

[peter hh]

Im watching some videos on the Internet, youtube etc..

And why is it that certain ones play with no problems, but then others keep freezing because there downloading slow?

Is it because of the amount of people watching these videos or something?

[peter hh]

Does anyboby know.?

[thepassenger]

number of people, location of server, size of video, codec used, fluctuations in your avaliable bandwidth, ISP's proxy/cache system burping.... all of that can affect both how fast the video stream and how smoothly it plays.

[dern]

If you can pause the playback while the video buffers to your machine and then play it when you have downloaded a good chunk you can tell if the problem is local (still get problems, codecs maybe) or with the connection/server (now plays fine).