[GRLUG] xoom/embedded youtube issue

[Eric Beversluis]

On Wed, 2011-12-21 at 13:17 -0500, Tom Warren wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Eric Beversluis
> <ebever at researchintegration.org> wrote:
> > On my xoom, I was listening to the embedded YouTube presentation by Jim
> > Vasile on the freedomboxfoundation.org site using the default browser.
> > The 4-minute plus presentation ran fine up to about the 2:50 mark and
> > then stopped. It was like it was trying to download more to the buffer,
> > but never succeeded in doing so.
> >
> > When I tried the same site/presentation on my laptop, it worked fine all
> > the way through.
> >
> > When I try to view the video directly at YouTube using the default
> > browser on my xoom, it hangs up after about a minute or so. Repeatedly.
> >
> > So my question is whether there's something in Xoom or in the default
> > browser or in Flash that's limiting the size of the YouTube download?
> >
> > Or any other ideas about what might be causing this.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> 
> Have you tried opening the video in the YouTube application on your
> Xoom? Might be a problem with Android Flash.
> 
That seemed to work OK, tho it stopped twice to "re-buffer". I wonder if
there's a buffer size limit and somehow the browser/Flash setup isn't
able to refresh the buffer after it's been once filled (don't know if
that makes any sense).


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