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"Reliability also matters differently for video than it does for normal web traffic. It's one thing to shuttle 5GB (or whatever) of data over the course of an h
by rsync 10y ago
"Reliability also matters differently for video than it does for normal web traffic. It's one thing to shuttle 5GB (or whatever) of data over the course of an hour. It's another thing to shuttle 5GB of data with no hiccups for an hour."
Speaking of which ...
I notice that while youtube continues to buffer video while paused, netflix (and many, many other video players online) do not.
So while netflix will auto-adjust quality for you in response to a bad net connection, you can't just pause it, go brush your teeth, and come back with a big enough buffer to avoid skips through the entire video.
When did video players stop buffering-on-pause ? Why was that choice made ?
On the other end of the spectrum is whatever video player showtime online uses - it does not adjust quality and it does not buffer on pause. Basically it was built for perfect Internet connections and nothing else.
- sdflkd 10y ago> I notice that while youtube continues to buffer video while paused Not anymore, or at least not for long periods of time.
- savanaly 10y agoProbably too many cases where they deliver a bunch of content while it's paused and then the content never gets played. More than half the people who pause it probably end up closing the tab without finishing the video, so one can save a lot of bandwidth by only delivering the data when it's needed. A totally unsupported hypothesis.
- yomly 10y agoI arrived at the same conclusion when I realised that YouTube no longer buffers the video all the way through to the end on mobile anymore. I miss being able to buffer a (long) video for offline playback when riding public transport.
- joshbaptiste 10y agoDitto, for this case I youtube-dl prior and watch on mobile VLC