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Unfortunately John is entirely wrong, about Firefox at least. Firefox does not buffer the entire media when autobuffer is not present. I don't know how he came
by cpearce 17y ago
Unfortunately John is entirely wrong, about Firefox at least. Firefox does not buffer the entire media when autobuffer is not present. I don't know how he came to that conclusion, but just check out this page as an example:
http://pearce.org.nz/video/bunny-poster.html http://pearce.org.nz/video/bunny-poster.html
Note that the progress bar on the controls does not turn to a lighter shade of gray until you press play - this means Firefox isn't buffering data unless you press play.
John's blog post is wrong.
- latortuga 17y agoYou may be correct for Firefox but on the latest Chrome beta, my progress bar looks blue both before and after I press the play button - there is no indication to me as to whether it is buffering or waiting for input.
- telemachos 17y agoI'm on yesterday's Chromium build on a Mac, and here was my test. Go to the page, don't click, wait, wait some more, keep waiting, wait, some more wait. Then, try to drag the video to the half-way point and start play from there. Result? The video jumps back to the beginning of the play cycle. Thus, I deduce, it ain't loading. Firefox 3.5 here, no autobuffer. Safari does as Gruber says and starts loading immediately.
- theschwa 17y agoHere's an article from Mozilla going over this http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/12/autobuffering-video-in-firefox/ http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/12/autobuffering-video-in-fire...