When you click a video link on YouTube or some other video web site, your computer is actually requesting that the video file be downloaded to a temporary location on your computer’s hard drive. Most of the video web sites will start to play the video before the download is finished. As long as the download speed is as fast or faster than the playback speed, everything will be fine. If the download speed is slower than the playback speed, the playback has to stop several times during playback so the download can catch up. The progress bars at the bottom of the video viewing area actually show both the playback progress and the download progress as shown in the photo.
The reasons the download speed may be slower than the playback speed can be due to your connection speed being too slow or sometimes due to the online video server being slow. The answer to the problem is fairly simple. I wish I had figured it out on my own, but I actually found the answer at www.ask-leo.com.
If you have this problem, simply pause the video playback right after it starts. The download will continue even with the playback paused. You can check on the download status bar until the downloading is complete. Then, resume playback and there won’t be any stopping. You may not have to wait until the download is completed. It just has to be far enough along that the playback doesn’t catch up. I’ve experimented a couple of times with starting the playback when the download was half to three-quarters done, but the playback still caught up and I had to endure the stops. So, I’ll just let the download finish before I start the playback.
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