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Well it turns out I was wrong. The answers I had got from some of the Netflix customer service support team that I took as gospel truth turned out to be heresy. I just talked to someone from corporate who said that it is Netflix who restricts the buffer size.So my question, if you will take it, is how hard would it be for Netflix to add a feature ...
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This is what I got out of the article:
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"The server only sends ahead enough data packets to fill the client buffer. The client buffer is typically between 1 and 10 seconds (Windows Media Player and Silverlight default buffer length is 5 seconds). This means that if you pause a streamed video and wait 10 minutes, still only approximately 5 ...
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Thanks for the link, and if you would read the comments you would see that a lot of people are having the same problem.
But the problem is not with Netflix. The problem is with the logic of your program. (Which resides in the base code they can't touch.) It thinks I need less buffer room than I do. And that cripples the app because it ...
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@gillesk
No, It's definitely not an issue with Netflix or connection speed. Before they switched to silverlight people could let pause the movie and let it load a 10 minute buffer or even let it download the entire movie if they wanted. And that didn't change until 1 or 2 silverlight updates ago.
Now I it stops buffering at about 3 ...