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<blockquote data-quote="tony72" data-source="post: 1093919" data-attributes="member: 97107">So in the OnlineVideos settings, the minimum you can set the buffer to currently is 1%. This is fine in most cases, however where you have a very long video, and the server rate-limits so that you can't download at a much faster rate than is required for playback, it becomes a problem. I was watching a five-and-a-half hour 720p Commonwealth Games program from BBC iPlayer, and it took several minutes to start playback; 1% of 5.5hours = 3.3 minutes worth of video to buffer, it's a lot. I don't know what rate limit was in effect, but it took over two minutes before playback started. And the thing is after playback started, the first thing I did was seek forward an hour, and playback at the seek position started almost immediately, so it obviously doesn't rebuffer the same amount after seeking, and all that initial buffering time was to no end. I know this is quite an extreme case, but watching 2+ hour movies is not that extreme, and the same issue can apply.I'd like to suggest that a maximum buffering time is implemented, so playback will after a maximum of n seconds initial buffering, regardless of how much data has been buffered. Either that or just allow smaller settings than 1% to be set for the initial buffer. Having to sit there for minutes before playback starts is no good.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tony72, post: 1093919, member: 97107"] So in the OnlineVideos settings, the minimum you can set the buffer to currently is 1%. This is fine in most cases, however where you have a very long video, and the server rate-limits so that you can't download at a much faster rate than is required for playback, it becomes a problem. I was watching a five-and-a-half hour 720p Commonwealth Games program from BBC iPlayer, and it took several minutes to start playback; 1% of 5.5hours = 3.3 minutes worth of video to buffer, it's a lot. I don't know what rate limit was in effect, but it took over two minutes before playback started. And the thing is after playback started, the first thing I did was seek forward an hour, and playback at the seek position started almost immediately, so it obviously doesn't rebuffer the same amount after seeking, and all that initial buffering time was to no end. I know this is quite an extreme case, but watching 2+ hour movies is not that extreme, and the same issue can apply. I'd like to suggest that a maximum buffering time is implemented, so playback will after a maximum of n seconds initial buffering, regardless of how much data has been buffered. Either that or just allow smaller settings than 1% to be set for the initial buffer. Having to sit there for minutes before playback starts is no good. [/QUOTE]

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