If a user has a great connection.. I don't want a buffer, just play.
If a user has a slower connection, the video stutters, and plays one chunk at a time.
Is there any kind of intelligent buffering that looks at the file, and calculates how long to buffer based on est download time versus length of video?
Thanks,
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Could you take a look at the following link and check if this is something similar to what you are looking for:
http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/smoothstreaming/
Please let us know if you need more help.
Hristo
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What I still want is to understand why the player 'jitters' if it attempts to play before enough of the video has downloaded. If a users connection is fast enough, the download happens faster than the video itself. If a user has a bad connection, the video stops and starts as the chunks are downloaded. This is not a good experience.
-The alternatives are making users wait till it's all downloaded to play.
-Educate users to know to pause until enough has downloaded.
The best experience would be for the video player to know how much has dowloaded, and calculate when to buffer, and when to play.
Our media player does not provide any additional buffering functionality on top of the Silverlight's MediaElement. You may try using the MediaElement's BufferingTime property. You can get access to the MediaElement after the player has been loaded (in the loaded event for example).
You are right that , alternatives you suggested are not appropriate. So the best would be if you programmatically manage the buffering. You can try programmatically pausing and playing the video when this is required due to low bandwidth.
Please let us know if you need more help.
Hristo
the Telerik team