When pausing a video, does it buffer for you?

[pilot830]

Seems on my site, when you pause a video it does not buffer

Is this just how yetishare is, or? Example on https://fhscript.com/11cD/The_Simpsons_Movie_-_1080p_Trailer.mp4 when i hit pause, it stops here http://i.imgur.com/eUIeA1B.png it doesnt go beyond that. Why not keep buffering?

 

[filegasm]

Not sure why but maybe it's on your server config issue. I have the media player plugin and the buffering goes fine until the whole file is buffered, even if the player is paused.

 

[enricodias4654]

Well, pausing the buffer at some point will save server bandwidth. Some sites even reduce the download speed to the minimum possible to play the video.

 

[pilot830]

Not sure why but maybe it's on your server config issue. I have the media player plugin and the buffering goes fine until the whole file is buffered, even if the player is paused.

But the link and screen shot i posted, is from fhscript.com , so it isn't so much about my server or an issue with my server, in the screen shot it shows that the buffer never moves beyond what i circled


https://fhscript.com/11cD/The_Simpsons_Movie_-_1080p_Trailer.mp4 when i hit pause, it stops here http://i.imgur.com/eUIeA1B.png

 

[enricodias4654]

Not sure why but maybe it's on your server config issue. I have the media player plugin and the buffering goes fine until the whole file is buffered, even if the player is paused.

But the link and screen shot i posted, is from fhscript.com , so it isn't so much about my server or an issue with my server, in the screen shot it shows that the buffer never moves beyond what i circled


https://fhscript.com/11cD/The_Simpsons_Movie_-_1080p_Trailer.mp4 when i hit pause, it stops here http://i.imgur.com/eUIeA1B.png

"File has been removed by the site administrator."

 

[paypal1352]

Mine doesn't buffer, probably some sort of server issue, i'd rather keep it like this anyway, less bandwidth being utilized, although this works well with high speed connections, folks with slower connections might suffer. Personally I wouldn't even know where to start to look into this issue anyway, if anyone finds a solution please post it

 

[pilot830]

Well, pausing the buffer at some point will save server bandwidth. Some sites even reduce the download speed to the minimum possible to play the video.

I have been trying to figure this out for quite some time now, how to get it to not just buffer a tiny amount and then stop, but to buffer a lot more, or the whole video (if paused)

Let's revisit this for a second. Go to https://fhscript.com/DAr/Wreck_It_Ralph_Trailer.mp4 , hit play and then immediately press pause..

This video is only 38mb.

After you press pause, after 30 seconds or so, do you have the same gap as I do? http://i.imgur.com/9OR3hSs.png where you see how it only buffers a little bit, and that's it? Like, it doesnt buffer the WHOLE video..

How can we change this so that it buffers the whole video?

Does anyone have any ideas on what to do, or what direction to go? Is it a webserver configuration, or is it somethign within yetishare code

I mean, it's clearly happening on fhscript.com , the demo site..

The reason this is a problem is because some people that are on slow connections, when they try to watch the video, their connection cannot keep up.. so they press pause.. in hopes that it will buffer the whole video, or continous buffer while paused, so that after a few minutes, they can press play and watch what's been buffered so far .... but as we can see, when you hit pause, it does not continue to buffer.. so this is a major problem for me..http://i.imgur.com/9OR3hSs.png

I would pay to get this figured out. Can anyone help?

 

[pilot830]

Per my last comment, I have now confirmed that if I directly throw a .mp4 file on the webserver, like in public_html/test.mp4 , and then i create a embed.html that is just simply like this: http://hastebin.com/erehowehud.xml

the video DOES buffer continously, when paused.... this is what im trying to achieve with yetishare

when you load a video through yetishare, its loading this download_token URL.... given that the video buffers when directly loaded off the webserver, i can only conclude that there is something in the yetishare code is preventing the video from buffering all the way, when pauused. It seems to only buffer a tiny chunk and then stop buffering (when paused)... Does anyone have any ideas as to where in the yetishare code this is happening, or how to solve it?

I see on fhscript.com - where the issue is happening, and my own site, fhscript has Improved Downloads set to Disabled.. Could this be why? i.e if i were to enable xsendfile, it would then start buffering more ?

EDIT: welp, i went ahead and enabled x_sendfile on the file server, uploaded a video, verified on phpinfo() that the x_send_file was enabled, did all the instructions as per https://support.mfscripts.com/public/kb_view/1/ -- so now when i go to play the video, i hit play, and of course i check the download tracker for this file and its not appearing, so this tells me the xsendfile is working.. becuase correct me if im wrong, if you use xsendfile your download tracker stats wont appear.. so this confirms to me that its running through xsendfile..

however, when i pause the video, the buffering is still the same. hardly nothing at all. a teeny tiny chunk then that's it. It's a 300mb mp4 file, that is bitrate 900kbps..

when i take this SAME file and put it on the webserver directly, public_html/test.mp4 , and load it, it buffers when i pause right away, and keeps buffering, all the way to the end

so this leads me to believe that even with improved downloads enabled -> xsendfile on, the buffering still doesnt work and that there is something in the yetishare code limiting this buffering from happpening

 

[enricodias4654]

Let's revisit this for a second. Go to https://fhscript.com/DAr/Wreck_It_Ralph_Trailer.mp4 , hit play and then immediately press pause..

This video is only 38mb.

After you press pause, after 30 seconds or so, do you have the same gap as I do? http://i.imgur.com/9OR3hSs.png

Nope. It buffered the entire video. I'm using firefox.

 

[pilot830]

Let's revisit this for a second. Go to https://fhscript.com/DAr/Wreck_It_Ralph_Trailer.mp4 , hit play and then immediately press pause..

This video is only 38mb.

After you press pause, after 30 seconds or so, do you have the same gap as I do? http://i.imgur.com/9OR3hSs.png

Nope. It buffered the entire video. I'm using firefox.

Try it with chrome https://fhscript.com/DD8/Resident_Evil_Retribution_Trailer.mp4