Decaflon

I hate that viddler doesn't let me pause the video and let it keep loading so I can watch it with out pause straight through. All the other video players let you pause and finish the loading, yet viddler doesn't allow it.

Sorry just irritated cause it's lame watching a video that pauses every few seconds.

Lol, nice intro to your setup man. I currently operate with a 20" iMac and a 15" Powerbook G4, with the latter being my primary choice of weapon. I'm in the process of upgrading to a MPB by the way.

j-mathias - good point on that. When I bump into choppiness, I prefer to pause, let it load then I can watch it all the way through. Maybe they will add that. :)

we can only hope. :)

Nothing special but here is mine. I agree with James on the pause issue.

http://www.viddler.com/explore/bullock_d/videos/3/

Waiting for the video i'll try to make with my mobile phone, i have a mac mini i use with a normal lcd monitor and an external disk, and a sony vaio (windows xp) as a laptop.

j-mathias, Tyme, and bullock_d: Are you saying that videos pause intermittently while watching videos, or that you are pausing them and they have to buffer again when you hit play?

Much of this might be a bandwidth thing, but videos rarely pause for me unless I pause them myself, or I am adding a tag or comment to the timeline.

I'll point the Viddler engineers to this thread, but I'd appreciate as much detail as possible since I can't give them much when it doesn't happen to me.

Another person here with severely laggy playback.

I thought it might have been a bandwidth thing and it probably is but that's what buffering is supposed to forgo.

They need to look at the streaming speed and only play when the client knows it's going to be able to play all the way through (with an optional play button for those of us that are impatient).

Colin, upload your video somewhere else, I want to see it!

Josue: Got some great minds on the problem, I doubt you'll have to wait much longer before you're back up and running.

Colin, here's what I mean.

I go to view your video on viddler, it starts playing then every few seconds it pauses and re-buffers, causing laggy, jagged playback.

Now this is definitely due to my bandwidth, but if the same video were on YouTube, Live Video, Google Video or any of the other video sites, I could click the pause button as soon as the video began loading, and watch the time line bar fill up with a gray, red or blue color, then once that's complete I can watch the video uninterrupted from beginning to end.

Viddler doesn't have this functionality, and it is the last issue that I have with the site before, I'd become a zealot for the service like yourself.

dude get better internet :)

I've got the best internet available here.

I'm simple. 15" macbookpro. all the computer I need :)

Josue: It isn't an issue of the connection as much as an experience problem. All I can say at the moment is that Viddler is testing out many possibilities to help with this effort. One of the fundamental problems with the approach that other services take is that you can't automatically scrub to an unloaded portion of the video whereas with Viddler you can. You can start the video from any moment because it is a true stream.

A balance needs to be met, and some of the things the team is looking to do will strike that balance I think. But a lot of what the team is doing takes a bit of development and testing cycles.

I have a pretty high tech set up, if I do say so myself. I'm rocking the dual monitors, with new disposable keyboard and mouse.

I just made a short video on why Viddler isn't great.

I highlighted suspected causes and remedies of poor service.

Ryan - LOL! Though you do have far too much spare time on your hands to make something like that.

Dell pc:

3.2Ghz Dual Core Intel
1.5Ghz 533 ram
2x150gb HD's (raid setup)
Creative audigy Xfi
19" dell high res monitor
nvidia 512mb 7900GTX
7.1 creative speakers

All that and it still doesnt run supreme commander above medium settings