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Originally posted by GreatEmerald View PostMeanwhile I'd enjoy having 1080p videos that you wouldn't actually need to wait half an hour to buffer.
Also for... buffering? First off... who buffers? Download the damned thing. You can download an entire movie in considerably less time than that. Or are you downloading via smoke signals?
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Originally posted by droidhacker View PostThat still makes a 6 or 8 core run full out and compete with your vacuum cleaner to see what is louder. Enjoy your movie... if you can actually hear it.
Also for... buffering? First off... who buffers? Download the damned thing. You can download an entire movie in considerably less time than that. Or are you downloading via smoke signals?
Downloading takes even longer than buffering.
Originally posted by curaga View PostI was under the impression Lithuania had very fast internet? Wikipedia says you have the 2nd fastest down pipe and the fastest up pipe.
Once I move somewhere else, though, chances are I'll be able to use fibre internet (again; my last flat had it). Then I'll be able to self-host servers and all. But until then...
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Originally posted by GreatEmerald View Post...
Downloading takes even longer than buffering.
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Originally posted by Serge View PostOk, well, to be fair, a given video will take the same amount of time to download regardless of what you do with it after you download it. I guess if you are writing it to persistent storage, then that will take longer than just leaving it in a buffer, but since writing to storage occurs at the same time as the download is still in progress, and since your bottleneck is the download, chances are you aren't going to see any actual difference in time between writing it to storage or not. On the other hand, if you compare the same video optimized for download and optimized for streaming, assuming equal quality the download version should be a little bit smaller and hence actually take less time downloading.
Granted, some videos can be watched while download is in progress. But that basically means buffering, because that way you need to make sure you're downloading everything sequentially. And then you also can't seek.
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Originally posted by GreatEmerald View PostWhen buffering, you get to buffer and watch in parallel. When downloading, you download first, and watch after that, so it takes longer. And if I want to watch a video, I typically want to watch it right at that moment, not after half an hour.
Granted, some videos can be watched while download is in progress. But that basically means buffering, because that way you need to make sure you're downloading everything sequentially. And then you also can't seek.
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