I doubt that I’m the only one experiencing this glitch but every time I try to watch the latest “History According to Hediger” video, it locks up about half way through (Jim is just starting to discuss attending conventions with Linn Wescott). Is MR staff aware of this problem? If not, you should be now. Please try to fix this glitch ASAP. This is an interesting video series and I’d really like to hear what Jim Hediger has to say!
I get this occasionally. I simply close the browser and re-open it. Then once the video starts, I pause it until the entire video is loaded.
I’m using Firefox 3.5.3 and have it set to clear the cache upon closing. Others may have to separately clear the cache before re-opening your browser.
Tom
Somewhere along the convoluted chain of providers, there is a slow feed, and it may be the very first…this one. What I do is to hit “Pause”, and wait for 30 seconds. When I resume, I usually find that it goes on unimpeded because, as suggested above, the file has loaded more fully and is thus a more subtantial buffer.
-Crandell
I have DSL and I find that it takes some time for the videos to load. Occasionally the longer ones won’t completely load unless I refresh the page. On the other hand, I’ve been connected via broadband using my same computer and the videos load right away with no troubles and no delay.
Chuck,
Check the speed of your connection here.
I have cable, 10 meg. I have no problem with any video on a directly connected computer. I will actually test in excess of 10 meg,
My wireless computers are not as fast. 7 to 8 meg.
DSL will be slower.
I dont have any problem with it.
Glitch? What glitch?
My system–the much maligned Vista with IE8 that I use a fair bit seems to work quite fine from here—the buffer is finished in one go with no wind ups or refreshing or anyt’in’.[:-^] I see the vid in one go–no waiting in the middle[swg][:-^]
Ditto, although I refuse to use Vista [:D] My main system (until I transfer my files ot the new computer I just built) is XP with IE7, but I just watched the latest Cody’s Office vid on my laptop which is Windows 7/IE8 and had no problems. I always watch them full screen, too.
Issues that can cause slow playback: connection speed. connection reliability (15 meg pipe does no good if it drops 20% of the packets), browser cache (clear it once in a while!), disk nearly full (see previous), disk badly fragments - do a defrag although if there isn’t much free space it might not clean up as well as it could, spyware/malware - numerous free tools are out there that can scan and clean your system, just never EVER click on the one that might pop up in your browser, that one IS malware and VERY hard to get rid of once infected.
–Randy