videos keep pausing

[benny27 3]

For no reason, the videos on Pattaya Talk and anywhere else I watch them such as You Tube won't play right through but instead have that annoying 'pause' every few seconds. It is too frustrating to watch them as a result, a 5 min video takes 10 minutes to play.

It has always worked just fine but this change has happenned for no apparant reason, and any help any BMs could give me in how to solve this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Benny 27

[bizzjet 0]

It's buffering or spooling and it depends on the speed of the connection.

 

Remember a computer can only be as fast as it's slowest link.

 

Provide more details eg; wireless, LAN, RAM size etc

[TKR Bones 26]

It's buffering or spooling and it depends on the speed of the connection.

 

Remember a computer can only be as fast as it's slowest link.

 

Provide more details eg; wireless, LAN, RAM size etc

 

As Bizzjet has mentioned, sounds like buffering or spooling.

 

A solution is to Pause the video on YouTube. The video pauses, but the buffering still continues. When you then un-pause [play] the video, it will play through.

 

You can have multiple windows (or tabs) loading (buffering) YouTube videos in the background, whilst your watching others.

 

Cheers

[whilliam_mancon 2]

I have had the same problem, thanks for the info guys!

 

 

 

 

 

[pattysteve 34]

Hmmmm ,i always thought it was broadband speed that couldnt keep up with the streaming rate.Thats how much i know .So will the pausing also help on BBC Iplayer?

[joekicker 53]

All of the above. What you REALLY need is a better Internet connection, your's is not very good if it won't do one video.

 

You can also download the videos and watch them from your hard drive in many cases. YouTube is really easy to download, for example. There are eleventeen trazillion free programs to do it for you easily.

 

In general, pausing will help. It depends on the individual service and how they stream.

[benny27 3]

Thanks folks, being a non techy type I can inform you that my computer is 2 yrs old and the connection is with Virgin, it states ' Speed 128 kbps, sent 723,000, recieved 7.3M' . Now this sounds to me to be pretty slow, perhaps I should contct them to see if they can get me a faster connection. I signed up for a year to get the free phone calls so hopefully they should help me. I don't live in a part of the country where slow speeds are the norm as far as I know.

Is the way I should do it, can anyone tell me? Thanks again

[joekicker 53]

128 is WAY slow. You will not watch streaming Internet video well with that setup. You should be able to get one MB service for not a huge amount more, and you should have one megabyte if you intend to watch video. A 10-year-old computer is perfectly capable of letting you watch Internet video. What is REALLY involved at the sharp end of this spear:

 

1. The Internet connection. A 512kbps is borderline and will work a good amount of the time, sort of. A 1mbps connection should be just fine.

2. The Internet connection.

3. The Internet connection.

4. The Internet connection.

5. Your computer graphic card. It should be fine on a 2-year-old machine.

6. Computer memory. 512MB should work fine, 1 gigabyte WILL always work, so long as you have a decent Internet connection.

7. A good (or excellent) CRT colour monitor or any LCD monitor.

 

Oh, almost forgot. Your Internet connection, that's important.

 

If you have all the above and it doesn't work really well, 98 per cent of the time or better, you may need some minor tweaking but it should be no sweat.

[valentinoxxx 4]

Thanks folks, being a non techy type I can inform you that my computer is 2 yrs old and the connection is with Virgin, it states ' Speed 128 kbps, sent 723,000, recieved 7.3M' . Now this sounds to me to be pretty slow, perhaps I should contct them to see if they can get me a faster connection. I signed up for a year to get the free phone calls so hopefully they should help me. I don't live in a part of the country where slow speeds are the norm as far as I know.

Is the way I should do it, can anyone tell me? Thanks again

 

128kbps??? Are you joking? Is that ADSL or ISDN?

 

Click on this link Entering the prerequisite details will give you all of the info on services available in your area and what speeds are achievable.

 

 

 

 

In your case, your connection speed is the likely bottleneck.

[short 215]

128kbps is basically the speed of two dialup lines combined. Thats simply not going to work with video.

 

Be advised that many cellphone companies charge per byte after recieving just a few gigabytes.

 

You must have real broadband to do video.

[valentinoxxx 4]

128kbps is basically the speed of two dialup lines combined. Thats simply not going to work with video.

 

Be advised that many cellphone companies charge per byte after recieving just a few gigabytes.

 

You must have real broadband to do video.

 

Virgin is not a 'cellphone' company. Virgin Mobile is just part of their business. Don't assume he is connecting via a mobile service.

 

Anyway, speeds of between 1 and 2Mb/s are expected via mobile broadband.

Edited October 17, 2008 by valentinoxxx

[short 215]

Virgin is not a 'cellphone' company.

 

Anyway, speeds of between 1 and 2Mb/s are expected via mobile broadband.

 

 

How else would you explain the speed he claims to be getting?

[valentinoxxx 4]

Because he mentioned the free calls bundle: Virgin

 

Virgin Media

 

Virgin Media (Non Cable)