ya the video players seem to blow in general. I haven't watched a video that hasn't stopped on me in months it feels like. I switch between mac and pc, Firefox and chrome too. Which makes me feel like its not an issue with the player but the server side hosting of the videos.
I know 5 bucks a month isn't much, but the annoyance of the video players and the constant onslaught of this Dave Lang creature makes me want to cut and run. I think the ray of sunshine that is Vinny is the only thing that keeps me around haha.
I've just been watching videos in the browser straight from their download links instead of actually using the player. That seems to work more reliably for me.
A lot of the time (not every time) for very long videos (over 45 minutes), I can't even get the HTML 5 player to even start playing in Chrome. It looks like it's gonna load the file in the player but never does no matter how long I wait. Which is a bummer.
Shorter videos often play, but sometimes 8 to 10 minutes in, they pause and I have to reload. This happens at home at the office (Time Warner Cable with 20 megs down & work is a Verizon Circuit with 50gig out). So go figure.
I'm using Firefox 29, both the HTML 5 videos and the Progressive Videos crap out on me when watching the HD feed. The last 3 Unprofessional Fridays, Vinnyvania 3, the Bounding quicklook. For the most of these, it seemed like it was stopping at roughly the same percentage through the video, like 60-70% done. I've updated my java, flash and firefox to see if that would help, and so far it hasn't. I think(and can't quite remember for sure) that it plays further in High quality over HD quality.
I only started using HTML 5 last night because UPF stopped about an hour in, and even when I clicked on the download link to watch it there instead, it crapped out after another 40 or so minutes. So then I returned to the regular page and changed it to HTML 5 and had it stop another 2-3 times for the last half hour or so of UPF.
This all started happening(for me, anyway) the week following that UPF where the audio was half a second out of sync, and I remember hearing that you guys had to start encoding videos differently around then.
@duecenage: wierd, would you mind checking out chrome? I'll check w/ the encoding group and see what if any changes they've been making to help move us along.
@mrpibb: I rewatched the Bounden Unfinished in chrome, and it worked fine for the whole vid in progressive HD. I'll try some of the other quicklooks as new ones pop up and see if the problem rears its head again.
@mrpibb: 1password is the only add-on I've put onto it, though.. the time for when I added that is roughly the same time as the issues. I might try deactivating it for a quicklook sometime this week.
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