Thanks Morgan and Howard, I'm the only one on my modem. I'll try Morgan's suggestion, and let it finish buffering and then play it.
Ned On Nov 18, 2010, at 5:34 PM, mc41mc wrote: > I'm a windows user, but here is what I think is happening. Your internet > connection doesn't quite have enough bandwidth to stream the video in real > time. So your media player will buiffer some of the video, start to play it, > and then need to pause while it buffers some more. In my media player I can > see how much is buffered. It shows in the same place it shows the current > position, but in a lighter colour. So the buffering colour will move along, > and then the current position will catch up to the buffering point, the video > will pause, and then this cycle will repeat. > > Any of these fixes work in windows, so your mileage may vary: > > - wait until it has finished playing through once then play it again. it > will be fully buffered and play smoothly all the way through. > - switch to a lower resolution video mode, such as 360p or 480p. This is a > little drop down menu at the bottom of the video. > - when the video first starts, click the pause button until most or all of > the video has buffered, then start to play it. > > morgan > > From: Edward Mast <nedma...@aol.com> > To: Gernot Hilger <daube...@gmx.de> > Cc: Roman Turovsky <r.turov...@verizon.net>; > Sent: Thu, November 18, 2010 4:54:21 PM > Subject: [LUTE] Re: OT: a computer question > > Since the group has been dealing with computer questions, may I pose one. > Often when members post youtubes - or videos on ning - I find that they will > play for only a few seconds and then stop and then start again and so on. Is > the system buffering during the stopped times? My computer is a recent IMac > so has a lot of memory. Any way around this stop and go situation? > On Nov 18, 2010, at 3:01 PM, Gernot Hilger wrote: > > > I am running Tiger on my old 500 MHz G3 iMac. Fits like a glove and runs > > fast enough for playing music and more. It was my only computer until the > > first Mac mini came out. Videos are a bit of a problem though. > > > > I remember there was a firmware update necessary before being able to > > update to OSX. > > > > What type of Mac is that exactly? I might find out how to get OSX working. > > I never was a fan of OS 9 because it was not really stable. Some wonderful > > properties though. > > > > g > > > > -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > >> Datum: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:40:03 -0500 > >> Von: "Roman Turovsky" <r.turov...@verizon.net> > >> An: "howard posner" <howardpos...@ca.rr.com>, "lute mailing list list" > >> <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> > >> Betreff: [LUTE] Re: OT: a computer question > > > >> pretty sure. 450mhz only, on mine. > >> RT > > > > -- > > GMX DSL Doppel-Flat ab 19,99 €/mtl.! Jetzt auch mit > > gratis Notebook-Flat! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl > > > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > > > --
