A BUFFERING VIDEO CAN BE VERY ANNOYING
The trick to watching a buffering video or a loading video is to turn the video on and then quickly pause the video.
Click this button twice. The first click turns the video on. The second click will pause the video.
Then in a few seconds you will see a red line moving across the window at the right of this button (see below). That means the video is loading. That line is showing you how much of the video has been downloaded.
This is the secret to avoiding choppy videos. Get enough of the video "buffered" so that it plays without interruption. Your Internet connection may be too slow to allow you to watch the video until the whole thing (or at least half way) has been loaded. It may take a few seconds, but it's worth the wait. After the whole video (or at least half the video) has been buffered, it's time to click the "play" button and enjoy!
Starting and stopping and starting and stopping, etc. They become too annoying to watch. You could be having a "buffering" problem. Try this (what you learned above) and see if it helps.
When you click on a link to a video the first thing you should see is "Loading..." (YouTube) or "Buffering..." (Google Video). Even before it starts, though, you should see the control or button to play and pause. Like a VCR, the button looks like two vertical lines after clicking play. That's your cue that clicking on that button will pause the video. Go ahead and do that right away. Then the button will change back to a triangle pointing to the right like an arrow, same as the VCR's "play" button.
At that point you should start to see a red line (YouTube) or grey line (Google Video) start to grow from left to right next to the button. Computer geeks call that "buffering." There's a control that slides from left to right, too. YouTube uses a little round button over the red line and Google Video uses a grey slider that points at the grey line. That control shows how much of the video you've played. You can slide it back and forth along the line.
It's just some extra information that you might like to know when watching videos with your Media Player or your RealOne Player.
If the material you are trying to watch frequently buffers (loads), then it means that you are not maintaining a fast enough connection to the servers to watch the content at the speed you selected. Try increasing your buffering rate in the player:
Trick for a buffering video when using:
Windows Media Player 7 or above.
1. Open the Windows Media Player.
2. From the Tools menu, select "Options."
3. Select "Performance."
4. Under Network Buffering, select "Buffer."
5. Adjust buffering to "30 seconds of data."
6. Click "OK."
7. Close and reopen your web browser.
Trick for a buffering video when using:
RealOne Player.
1. Open the RealOne Player.
2. On the menu bar, select "Tools" and then scroll down to "Preferences."
3. In the Preferences window, select the + icon next to Connection.
4. Select the "Playback Settings" option.
5. Locate "Buffered Play" under Playback Settings.
6. Adjust buffering to "30 seconds of the clip before playing."
7. Click "OK."
8. Close and reopen your web browser.
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