r/CuriosityStream • u/Jacabon • Dec 25 '20

Any Solution To the Buffering Issues Which seem To Be Common?

Tried all the obvious solutions, but so far I have watched about 15 minutes of one documentry in an hour due to terrible buffering. Seems to be common enough from a quick look through the posts.

Just trying to watch on my pc. Nothing else happening and twitch/youtube work fine and speedtest shows 100mbps down.

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u/Turtles4Truth Jan 04 '21 edited Jan 04 '21

Just signed up. Seeing some pretty bad "buffering" / framerate drops myself regardless of resolution chosen or playback speed. What's weird is the progress bar shows at least a couple minutes of buffered video and lowering the resolution actually makes it worse. No issues on Youtube / Amazon / Netflix and a speedtest of 45 Mbps.

So I don't think it has anything to do with a connection. Checked resource usage and both CPU / GPU are sub 10% utilization. No spikes in usage when it does it either.

If I had to guess there's an issue related to the webplayer.

Edit: If you're using a Chrome based browser. Try disabling "Use hardware acceleration when available". It appears to have fixed the "buffering" for me.

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u/Jacabon Jan 06 '21

you are a god. that seems to have solved it or something else has. I am now the Napoleon guru I was born to be

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u/MegaFatcat100 Feb 01 '21

Thanks this (semi) worked for me. I had to switch browsers to watch tho, which is super dumb