When watching videos, I get a fairly stable buffer rate (which is much faster than the video playing) so I don't get the annoying buffer wait. When watching a higher quality video, I do have to buffer (This is 1080p and the like). But if I pause the video, it loads faster than I could watch it. So if it was actually playing it would not have to buffer. My question is, why when I pause a video does it stream faster? My connection is fine for loading high quality videos quickly, but something seems to be up :L What can I do to fix this?
He's saying that, when paused, the stream buffers faster than would be necessary to to play uninterrupted. Ie. the end of the 'currently buffered' bar is moving faster than the pointer would be if the video was playing. Tbh I have no idea, I normally experience the opposite and assumed it was the site giving lower bandwidth to users who pause to buffer ahead, giving priority to those actually watching as opposed to those who load up several videos and wait for them to buffer. Which site(s) are you experiencing it on?
For me, the higher quality I watch the video the faster it loads, which doesn't make sense at all to me but whatever. However there are some times on Youtube where the video will load incredibly slow for no reason. Anyone know why that is?
It's youtube I noticed it with, but I have seen it on other sites to a certain extent. Mace, stop trolling.
Apart from the fact that it wasn't a dumbass question, you clearly just misinterpreted as a question that didn't make sense, hence the reply you posted, when in fact it makes perfect sense and is a fair question.
Thanks for backing me up. I hope I do get an answer to fix this or at least know what the problem is because it is fairly annoying.
Yeah it is, unless it is cached to the hardrive. But I have plenty of RAM, more than enough in fact. Could be a read and write problem with the ram?