Speeding up streaming video

Does anyone know of any software that will allow you to increase the speed of streaming video? My classmates are able to download an application from enounce.com that allows them to speed up or slow down the lectures while using real player or windows media player....unfortunately it is not Mac friendly. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.

See if this helps:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/1062011#1062011
Also check when you make a speed adjustment that it will not impact on another track or clips in the Timeline.
This is the usual reason for the "conflict occurred" warning.
Al

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Anyone run into a similar problem as this one:
I recently purchased the HD version of Quantum of Solace (great movie by the way) and I wanted to add this movie into the folder where I keep the rest of my movies. The "planned storage location" was on the MyBook drive connected to my timecapsule. All the SD movies (less than 1.5 G file size) will stream perfectly to my Apple TV. However, this HD file (~ 3.5 G file size) will only play about 10 seconds before the motion on the TV screen freezes. The picture freezing lasts about 5 seconds while the apple TV buffer catches up!
Right now, the solution to my problem has been to place the HD movie onto my computer internal hard drive and then tell itunes where to find the file. When I play the movie this way, it never misses a beat!!!
My guess is that the internal hard drive connection rate is faster (not USB) versus the external USB drive. Could is also be the drive speed? Any thoughts out there in cyber Apple TV land?
(P.S. I don't like to put the movies directly onto the apple TV hard drive simply because I will fill it up without even trying very hard - I own lots and lots of movies).
Regards,
imovie storage hog

both HDDs you have will be the same speed... ie 7200rpm.
the only difference between them is that one is internal (either IDE or SATA) and one is USB (1 or 2?)
if you external USB drive is only USB1 (or the USB port you have it connected to is only USB1) then that is much much slower than both your internal IDE or SATA connection and USB2

Having trouble streaming videos. Is there anything I can do to speed up the connection?

Having trouble streaming videos. Is there anything I can do to speed up the connection?

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Slow and unresponsive. EtreCheck version: 2.1.5 (108) Report generated December 28, 2014 at 10:27:27 PM EST Click the [Support] links for help with non-Apple products. Click the [Details] links for more information about that line. Click the [Adware] links for help removing adware. Hardware Information: ℹ️ iMac (24-inch, Early 2008) (Verified) iMac - model: iMac8,1 1 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2-core 2 GB RAM Upgradeable BANK 0/DIMM0 1 GB DDR2 SDRAM 800 MHz ok BANK 1/DIMM1 1 GB DDR2 SDRAM 800 MHz ok Bluetooth: Old - Handoff/Airdrop2 not supported Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n Video Information: ℹ️ ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro - VRAM: 256 MB iMac 1920 x 1200 System Software: ℹ️ OS X 10.10.1 (14B25) - Uptime: 7:20:12 Disk Information: ℹ️ Hitachi HDP725032GLA380 disk0 : (320.07 GB) EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / : 319.21 GB (230.03 GB free) Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB USB Information: ℹ️ Apple Inc. Built-in iSight Apple Inc. 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Speed tests say 6-7Mbps, but can't stream video

I have a brand new BT Home Hub 3, connected to the main socket, through an i-plate and I am on the Option 3 upto 20Mb broadband package.
When I run a speed test I typically get 6-7Mbps which whilst rubbish compared to the 'upto 20Mbps' I am paying for should be sufficient. However sometimes if I try to watch BBC i-player on maximum resolution through my PS3 it stops and loads every few seconds. I know streaming high resolution video is fairly demanding, but not that demanding, I am not doing anything else at the same time so I think 6-7Mbps should be plenty. This only happens sometimes, but if I am trying to watch a film around 08:00pm on a 'school night' it happens more often than not.
If I drop the resolution it normally settles down, so I guess I am right on the edge of what it can handle, and I have a sort of 'work around'. But I am paying for the top level of broadband BT offer (they haven't put fibre optic in my exchange yet) and have the top level of kit BT supply, and I am not asking for the moon on a stick, just BBC i-player on top resolution.
I am normally connecting the PS3 wirelessly but I always have 100% wireless signal when I check on the PS3, the Hub and PS3 are less than 3m apart, in the same room, with nothing between them and no kit that could be causing interference (except for the Plasma TV near the PS3, but it wouldn't be much use if it wasn't connected to a TV!) and a couple of times I have had the same problem when I have connected them through an ethernet cable to check. I have seen a few bits of guidance saying try a differnt channel, but I think the Hub 3 does this for you automatically.
I think sometimes when you stream video it takes a few seconds for BT to realise that you need more bandwidth and open your pipe up a bit - I am used to the video pausing and buffering a few times in the first minute then settling down - but this can go on for a whole hour.
Please could someone step me through the diagnostics I should do as a first step. I don't know much about routers but I am prepared to go in a play with settings if someone who knows what they are doing will hold my virtual hand.

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I'm wondering if my cable internet is too slow for wireless streaming of videos to other macbooks. Any help will be appreciated

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Or, are you asking about streaming video that is already stored on the Time Capsule to your Mac?
In either case, what happens....video quality wise..... if you test by temporarily turning off the wirelss on the Mac and then connecting it to one of the LAN <-> ports on the Time Capsule using a spare Ethernet cable for a few hours?

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When I am at work (university), I can not view YouTube videos or video streaming from news sites such as cnn mobile on my ipod touch 2g.
<m.cnn.com/videos.jsp?ckey-cnn)06#__1_>
When I called Apple support, they had me reset-restore. I still had the problem. I went to the Apple store Genius bar and the problem no longer existed, the videaos downloaded and played from both sites!
But at my diner and at work, I get the message, "This movie could not be played" in a popup box with an OK button. The same message appears if I use the YouTube application. I click on any video, and the same popup appears. In Cnn the popup is preceded by a shaded capital Q that looks like the blue Quicktime Q; in Youtube the pupup is preceded by a YouTube icon in gray with the "Tube" surrounded by the rounded rectangle, their icoon...
At the Apple store the popup never appeared, and the videos downloaded and played.
I have no trouble playing movies I have downloaded from iTunes.
I did not have this problem when I initially got my iPod Touch, and I think it appeared after one of the last two system upgrades, but I am not sure.
I am curious that it the problem happens at two places, my diner and at work.
The speed of my wireless work network, as judged by the ipod app speed test is 9915 kbps download and 6971 kbps upload, so plenty fast.
The first time I noticed this issue was with the application "At Bat Lite" which also won't play video highlights at work.
I do not have WiFi at home
Any thoughts about what would cause this lack of functionality apparantly only at some networks but not others?
Oh, one more piece of data: at work a Macbook will play YouTube both on ethernet and using wifi...
Thanks for any thoughts or suggestions,
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It seems I have two networks available at work, one is behind our firewall, and I login to it. This is the network that I can't view streaming video. There is also a "Guest" network that I don't need to login to. This one works with the YouTube and the news site videos.
Thus, I conclude there is a setting that WiFi network administrators can invoke that specifically can block streaming video on some protocols (whatever the ipod touch uses) and not others (whatever the Macbook uses). But the same router hardware supplying the Guest network does not block these protocols. Presumably this has to do with security on one side of the firewall(?)
Anyway, apparently outside of the WiFi controls available in the ipod touch settings.
Weird...
Paul

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I can stream video(youtube) off my Iphone, but not Macbook. On my Iphone an icon shows up for some video streams that allows you to select appletv to stream the content to tv, but I don't see that same Icon when browsing and playing youtubes or video on my macbook.???

Unfortunately with that speed you are not going to have a good experience with HD streaming. I would make sure everything is set to stream SD. Go into the settings - iTunes Store and you can switch there for any purchases/rentals made through them.
If you use Netflix (or other streaming sites) go into your account(s) and see if you can switch to a lower quality stream. I know Netflix has that in place.

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Hi everyone,
I have had my iBook for a year and never even tried to take advantage of streaming video or audio b/c I had a dial-up connetion until very recently. Now that I have a high speed connection I would like to watch trailers and listen to music on myspace. I cannot watch trailers at www.apple.com/trailers/ or any video on myspace.com. Nor can I listen to music (I think they are xml files) on myspace.com. I'm currently running on Mac OSX 10.3.9 and Safari 1.3.1. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Christopher

Hi
Well I have the opposite effect here - the video plays fine on my MBP, yet not on my Intel iMac. On the iMac the video panel never appears. Rather tells me it needs Flash.
Safari is the same on both systems (or at least that's what I think). No plugin blocks are present. To test if the Preference files might be causing the problem, On the iMac, I moved to the desktop from the Macromedia folder in ~/Library/Preferences folder the folder inside the SharedObjects folder. Restarted the system/Safari but the video still does not play.
In the past, Layers magazine has not been a problem, however, I haven't viewed one for several months. Given what others have posted, there seems to be an oddity here that is not machine or Safari specific. I'll have to investigate more when I have time tomorrow.
Try the Video from another user account. See if this is system-wide, or just specific to your user account. BTW, video played fine on the iMac in Firefox.

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Not to state the obvious, but video requires significantly more bandwith than audio.
What app are you using to stream? What is its internet connection speed set at? What speed does the stream show it's streaming at?

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What do you understand with "real streaming"? Do you refer to frequency of transmission? The real time streaming is "not so real". If you put a small sleep time you will get a higher frequency and it will simulate a "real-time" streaming. To speed up your transmission, use UDP protocol instead of TCP, because media streaming in all techs is on top of UDP.

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Issues with Internet connection speeds aside, I am afraid that the age and speed of your eMac is what is causing your stuttering issues when streaming video and YouTube. Your eMac is just not up to the challenge. Plus, YouTube uses video codecs that are designed to run on more recent, modern computers.
Your eMac's CPU and, especially, the eMac's bulit-in video card are just not able to handle the type of content and codecs that a lot of streaming video sites use now. And, I wouldn't be surprised if some of the issues are from the fact that the the highest Mac OS X version you can run is OS X 10.4 Tiger. Your eMac is 6 years old and your OS version is 4 years old.
I have single 1.25 Ghz CPU with a fairly speedy video card and 2 GBs of RAM running OS X 10.5.8 Leopard on a DSL connection and I can watch streaming video in MP4 format from YouTube, but my Mac struggles, sometimes, with 720p HD videos from YouTube and can't play 1080p videos at all.
You could try and wait and load a good chunk of the video before streaming it or use a program like MacTubes to actually download YouTube content and watch it directly from your eMac without streaming it.
You may find these latter procedures may help make the experience of watching videos on your eMac a better experience.

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I have almost always had trouble streaming video....form Youtube and Netflix and other streams...and I don't know why! What needs to work better for streaming? Is a 3G hotspot connection not fast enough?? What do I need to do to make this seemingly simple operation run smooth?
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I have been having a problem with flash player for a couple of months now. When watching streaming video's the video will freeze for a second every 5-10 seconds constantly, but the audio continues uninterrupted. I have tried everything, enabling/disabling hardware acceleration; reinstalling flash player 11; trying flash player 10; updating the graphics drivers. I have also tried it on 5 different browsers: IE, Firefox, Chrome, Seamonkey (mozilla browser), and Opera. The same problem occurs on all of them. Yesterday I thought I had cracked it when I realised I had several versions of java installed and once I deleted all the old versions flash player worked fine. However, today the problem has started all over again, and for some reason flash player had deleted itself when I turned the computer on this evening.
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I'd be very grateful for any help anyone can give resolving this problem.
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I think the issue may be related to Silverlight which I think was released in September when we both started getting this problem. DIsabling it does not work, so I'm still not sure how or if it really is causing this problem.
If the player is Silverlight, you'd be able to see that by right clicking the video.
Can you go to Youtube, play any video and then right click it and choose "Take Speed Test". That will take you to a graph where you can see what your download speed is in relation to your ISP, your location and other data. If the black bar is way down compared with others, then I would suspect that something, or somebody else is using your bandwidth. Do you have wireless? If so, change the security code. It may be being used as a wireless hotspot by your neighbours.
You can also play the test video which will show data usage in real time.

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