Skip Buffering, Faster Play Trick
When you start up a video, it says Connecting... then as soon as the length of the clip shows up and changes from all 0's then hit the play button again.
If you do that, you do not have to wait for the buffering of the video to reach 100%, and then play automatically. You can initiate it as soon as the time shows up, usually as you reach buffering 0, sometimes before that, when it still says connecting.
You just found that out? The web player's behaved that way for years, even before the Stage6 era. Down the line the playback might catch up to the unbuffered portion, but by then you would've enjoyed parts of the video already, which isn't too troublesome depending on connection speed.
An option to start playback at some buffer percentage <100 would be welcomed.
:: sixsidedvideo.com ::
SSV,
The DWP is designed to buffer until it estimates that it will be able to play through the content without re-buffering. This is the condition met by the "100%" status. How that estimation is done can potentially be improved and we will look into that. There seem to be some cases in the current version where buffering may take longer than need be and we're working on those.
As my mother used to say, "If you have nothing good to say, then don't say it.
Thanks philochs for your tip and sharing your experiences with us.
Also, there has been an option to buffer everything first, before playing for many years. So Six Sided, I hope you find out how to do that.
It has been a bad option in the past, unless someone was using very small, low resolution audio/video on their Divx files.
The most important thing to know is that is was after Stage 6 came out, that the Divx Web Player, simply stopped working on private Internet and Intranet sites.
The Web Player was "downgraded" to only consider Stage 6 usage.
Buffering and having the video getting all messed up while it would play, happened all of the time and would be very inconsistent.
I think it is important to remember that the Divx Web Player's ultimate user, would Not be a web developer, but people who just want to watch, high quality video, with "in synch", high quality audio.
There is a good string on this site from people who are dedicated to using "legacy" Divx, so that they can use the only version in the past that worked and worked great, version 1.x.
I felt so good to see that, as most people who initially used the 1.x web player, just gave up on it and moved on, away from Divx for web based video.
I was stupid enough to keep at it, and sending email to reports to Divx, to no avail.
Pre Stage 6, it worked well. I never have figured out what the vision was for Stage 6, but what the heck.
Jon
PLEASE stay with web standards - Use Firefox 3.5x.
Yeah I just figured it out, DOH. I didn't find that info posted anywhere.