Re-buffering happens if you replay a video after it buffers completely till the end and if you click on the timeline far enough back during buffering.

I’ve looked through many threads but didn’t find any fix/workaround for this. I saw some users saying changing values for media.cache_readahead_limit and media.cache_resume_threshold to 99999 fixed it but that didn’t help and actually caused Firefox to stop buffering midway through videos.

  • KoolKai@fedia.io
    1·
    1 year ago

    I just compared the behavior in both Chromium and Firefox on my machine, and as far as I can tell, they act the same.

    Steps to reproduce:

    1. Open a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erQ_9yEz0ls
    2. Play the last 10 seconds
    3. Click “replay” button in the YouTube player

    What happens:

    The buffer is cleared in both browsers.

    What are you seeing that is different?

    • azureVM1@fedia.ioOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      You’re supposed to let it play/buffer all the way till the end. Then press replay or when you’re like 50-60% through the video, click on the timeline far enough back i.e < 1 min.

      For example, when this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tdiKTSdE9Y finishes playing for me, and I press replay, YouTube starts rebuffering the video from scratch. In Chrome’s case, the buffer is still there.