Cache Flash video / BBC / Flash settings

English Network/Internet
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I use BBC iPlayer. Trouble is the feed doesn’t seem to stream the video as fast as it can, it just keeps giving you a little at a time.

In youtube for example, the feed keeps coming even when you pause it. This doesn’t seem to happen with the BBC.

I did right click on the flash image and put the setting for file storage to unlimited, but it doesn’t seem to have helped
Screenshot: http://files.opensuse.org/opensuse/en/c/c8/Iplayerflash.jpg

Any advice welcome.

Thanks

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strange, i use the iplayer as well, never had this problem. Have you tried increasing your browser’s cache ?

Andy

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I have increased my browser cache, but have not used the player since. I’ll see how I get on.
I feel it should be possible to find the .flv file in FF cache so I have upped the storage there to 750mb, which should be enough - I think.

Do you find the files stream continues even when it’s paused - my router stops flashing after a minute or so - So I assume it’s not continuing to feed thru. If you get what I mean. (like I said about youtube - you can seed it continue to feed)

I’ll be interested hear your comments.

Cheers Andy

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mine continues the stream, even when paused. I can pause it 5-10 seconds in & let it buffer the whole program,then watch. just been watching the womens 400m olympic winner with no problems

Andy

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That’s odd. I just tried it and mine doesn’t do that. I went to FF cache which had just been emptied, and nothing of any substance there.

I am now wondering what settings I might have different in this area than you?

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could be a browser difference, i use Seamonkey, let me try Firefox & see what happens

Andy

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I use SM too always for suse forums

I just tried it in SM too and same as FF

Do you actually get a .flv file created?

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hmm, doesn’t work the same in FF as SM. & i did get an flv in Seamonkey, nothing in FF. very strange,have to look into this

Andy

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Andy,

I’ll be interested on your reporting back on this when you have time. It’s kind of bugging me now - you know how it is - we like to have things just so.

It was a couple of months or so ago, I sent a message to the BBC making some suggestions, having first given them a little praise for including Linux, one thing I suggested was a Watch in High Quality. Only it’s a struggle to watch - keeps pausing to catch up. The beeb is only feeding me at a trickle. I can open a .iso download in another window at the same time - and it will scream down at near my max ,adsl max 8mb - entanet. So it’s not my line. I’m v. close to my exchange.

Thanks for your trouble so far friend.

/caf

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hmm, appears it’s not the beeb at fault this time. Even tried it out on the neighbours line & windows machine ( not mine, no windows here,except the glass type :smiley: ) same problem in firefox,wasn’t caching,so it appears to be a firefox & flash thing. Seamonkey in windows caches as i expected.
Have you got the latest version ? check about:config & make sure the cache is set correctly there, once found i had set the cache for 100mb & checked about:config & that showed 10mb.Also check your version of flash,mine is 9.0r124

Andy

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Cache is fine in SM about:config
SM verMozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080715 SUSE/1.1.11-1.1 SeaMonkey/1.1.11
flash is from 11 default updates

Thanks. I’ll see how I go. Have to go out now, Will report back later
Cheers Andy

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if you are with BT, have a read of this Support Forums: BB line drops when watching BBC iPlayer … seems to be an on-going thing

Andy

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Yeah. But my line doesn’t drop. I have a BT line but ISP is NOT BT. But is Entanet.

Anyway, I used VBox today with an XP install in it and used the BBC iplayer downloader. Not really the solution I was looking for, you can only watch the videos in windows.

So really, I haven’t found a solution to the Cache problem - which is all it amounts to. I can’t understand why your SM is Caching the .flv?

Could it possibly be??: That I use _64 browser with the plug-in to work flash. Are you 32 or 64 platform and if _64 do you use 32bit browser?

Thanks

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AAAHHH!! 64bit. I’m 32bit on my laptop. AFAIK, the flash plugin on 64bit doesn’t work as good as 32bit

Andy

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Strange though, because it’s only the BBC (so far) that doesn’t cache the video.

I’m just thinking now as I write - I didn’t check to see what happened in XP when I was using it. Guess I may have to live with it for the time being. But thanks for all your replys/time Andy.

regards

/carl

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No problem, only wish i could solve this one

Andy

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Well I tried IE7 - FF and SeaMonkey in XP
None Cache the file.