i just bought my first mac and was wondering why my streaming media is sooo slow. flash loads slowly, quicktime videos, music isnt soo bad, but mainly video or visual stuff. i have a 1ghz powerbook g4 with the radeon 9600. also is there anyway to tweak it so it goes faster. ohh and any browser i use is the same way, including itunes. could it be the firewall or what and if it is how do i disable. thanks in advance for any help.
streaming media performance
- Thread starter billpicle
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michaelsanford
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It's not your firewall, because a firewall issue would (more than likely) cause it not to slow down, but would block it completely.
When you say it loads slowly, what do you mean exactly ? Radio stations take a long time to start playing ? I have the same issue but only with a few stations. If I click GrooveSalad 128k in iTunes it starts playing even faster than MP3s on my local drive! Others take a while...that's the internet for you
You could get it to load faster by changing the "Streaming Buffer Size" in iTunes, but if you have a slow connection I wouldn't recommend it as it will likely result in pausing and rebuffering.
Speaking of which, if streaming is so slow, what is your internet connection ? Is it shared between lots of people who could be hogging the bandwidth (like a house or a university dorm) ?
On my iBook 366 MHz things load pretty darn fast, namely, as fast as my internet connection. Sometimes they even load and play as fast than on my father's 2.2 GHz 1GB RAM Dell. Always, of course, referring to streaming media only.
When you say it loads slowly, what do you mean exactly ? Radio stations take a long time to start playing ? I have the same issue but only with a few stations. If I click GrooveSalad 128k in iTunes it starts playing even faster than MP3s on my local drive! Others take a while...that's the internet for you
You could get it to load faster by changing the "Streaming Buffer Size" in iTunes, but if you have a slow connection I wouldn't recommend it as it will likely result in pausing and rebuffering.Speaking of which, if streaming is so slow, what is your internet connection ? Is it shared between lots of people who could be hogging the bandwidth (like a house or a university dorm) ?
On my iBook 366 MHz things load pretty darn fast, namely, as fast as my internet connection. Sometimes they even load and play as fast than on my father's 2.2 GHz 1GB RAM Dell. Always, of course, referring to streaming media only.
michaelsanford
Translator, Web Developer
Oh, I didn't mention that above, but flash isn't a treaming media and isn't dependant on QuickTime. It's dependant on the FLASH media plugin that comes with most browsers now, which is written by Macromedia; blame them if it's slow.
I don't havemany issues with FLASH on m iMac 700MHz, it loads all right for me.
As for Quicktime, do you have instant-on enabled ?
I don't havemany issues with FLASH on m iMac 700MHz, it loads all right for me.
As for Quicktime, do you have instant-on enabled ?
michaelsanford
Translator, Web Developer
Yeah Instant-On should be enabled. There are a few programs on VersionTackers that will modify the TCP/IP packet a bit but I don't think it will really make a very big difference.
Curious that it's so slow though !
Curious that it's so slow though !