Live Stream Buffering

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I find that buffering during livestreams causes strange behavior like jumping ahead or back or repeating sections, even when I choose a specific quality, so it's not just when it switches between qualities on Auto. I was having no problems with today's east coast stream, but the west coast's stream right afterwards was jumping around almost immediately.

Would rewinding the stream a little help with this issue, so it's not trying to feed live video directly? Either way, I feel like other streaming services don't act like this when buffering, and it's definitely making it difficult to watch live.

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I find that buffering during livestreams causes strange behavior like jumping ahead or back or repeating sections, even when I choose a specific quality, so it's not just when it switches between qualities on Auto. I was having no problems with today's east coast stream, but the west coast's stream right afterwards was jumping around almost immediately.

Would rewinding the stream a little help with this issue, so it's not trying to feed live video directly? Either way, I feel like other streaming services don't act like this when buffering, and it's definitely making it difficult to watch live.

What kind of device are you using? Have you tried a different browser?

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Windows 8.1, Firefox 59.0.2 (64-bit)

I did go back and watch from where I left off because I forgot it would still be live and being behind did help.

I just tried with Chrome 65.0.3325.181 and was having the same problem, but then I tried again after turning AdBlock off and that seemed to help, so maybe it was just that.

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#4  Edited By SchrodngrsFalco

Yeah, I mentioned this in chat and others were reporting the problem as well. Live stream skips backwards, plays a few seconds, then jumps forwards.