I am going to go crazy if I don't get to hear this

lindsmuse

I've been sent this link on FB and have been trying for days to listen to it. It starts playing and then it breaks up, lags, plays a bit, breaks up. Its frustrating - anyone know what I can do?

TomCat

First of all it played perfectly for me.

Second of all I now want to go into the garden and burn my guitars and slit my wrists..... ? ?....That was quite something......

lindsmuse

Now I really AM going to go crazy!!!!!!!

inflames

This video suck, I'm with Tom!

Do you use IE or Firefox?

TomCat

I'm using the latest firefox and it plays no problem

lindsmuse

IE.

TomCat

I am not a fan of IE.

I've been using firefox for years and IMO is far better/faster and more stable than IE. Try downloading and installing firefox and see if the video then works.

lindsmuse

nope same thing! Strange - have never had this problem - must be something with Vimeo and some add on or something - cause this is the first time I've listened to something with Vimeo. It sounds like static or something about 10 seconds into the song. Thanks will keep hoping.

RobK

Tried on Firefox 3.5.7 and IE 8 and both playing fine on my side.

Maybe it has something to do with the version of Flash Player you're running. Mine is on version 10. Try update that and see if it makes a diference.

AlanRatcliffe

Plays fine for me. I'm downloading it now (using DownloadHelper), so if you don't come right, let me know and I'll upload it so you can download it directly and play it from your hard drive.

AlanRatcliffe

Here it is on YouTube:

lindsmuse

Thanks Alan ? - worth the wait! I can't remember now who he plays for (Terror Eyes?) - will check this out a bit further

Bob-Dubery

lindsmuse wrote: I've been sent this link on FB and have been trying for days to listen to it. It starts playing and then it breaks up, lags, plays a bit, breaks up. Its frustrating - anyone know what I can do?

OK... think of this as a STREAM of music. The playing software on your PC must consume that stream at a specific speed so that the music makes sense. But what happens if the stream is not replenished quickly enough? Exactly, the player will pause, wait until some more data streams in, consume that data and then pause again. This is what's happening.

I have this quite a lot with youtube clips.

So what I do is click the "play" button and then immediately pause the player again. Then go make a cup of tea, pour a whisky, have a bath, polish shoes, waste time on guitarforum.sa or whatever else I need to do to fill in the time. (I might even play some guitar)

In the meantime the player will continue to stream data in, but because the player is paused it will not "consume" the "resource". So when you do start playing the clip a buffer of data has built up and the player will consume that data whilst it is waiting for more to stream in.

How big should the buffer be? I don't know how to calculate that. I would depend mostly on the speed of the connection between your PC and the site hosting the clip AT THE TIME. The player usually has a little two-tone progress bar so that you can see how much has been dowloaded and how much of that has actually been played. I will sometimes just click play, click pause and then wait for the download to complete until I click play again.

I doubt changing browsers will make that much of a difference in this case.

HTH

Bob-Dubery

X-rated Bob wrote: How big should the buffer be? I don't know how to calculate that. I would depend mostly on the speed of the connection between your PC and the site hosting the clip AT THE TIME. The player usually has a little two-tone progress bar so that you can see how much has been dowloaded and how much of that has actually been played.

EG the bar showing in the player here

The grey is what has been downloaded (IE what is available to play). The blue is what has actually been played. If the grey bit is growing faster than the blue bit then all will go well. When the blue bit catches up the grey bit the player is playing faster than it can download and the problems that you describe will occur.

Colours won't necessarily be grey and blue - this will vary with the software - but there is often a progress bar that works along these lines.

lindsmuse

Ya. Thats what I actually did - I gave up, let it do its thing and then came back later. Its 33 mb - that also counts for something I suppose.

aubs1

X-rated Bob wrote: So what I do is click the "play" button and then immediately pause the player again. Then go make a cup of tea, pour a whisky, have a bath, polish shoes, waste time on guitarforum.sa or whatever else I need to do to fill in the time. (I might even play some guitar)

In the meantime the player will continue to stream data in, but because the player is paused it will not "consume" the "resource". So when you do start playing the clip a buffer of data has built up and the player will consume that data whilst it is waiting for more to stream in.

That is exactly what I do....... wait a bit, then go back and play.

X-rated Bob wrote: I doubt changing browsers will make that much of a difference in this case.

Right again Bob, it does'nt. I run Firefox and Safari on Macs, and IE and Firefox on PCs, no diffs. Sometimes fast, sometimes slow.

Conrad

Holy poefies!! So much stamina!! and good speed. Thanks for posting that.