Video Playback pauses in iPad 2

I have a few music videos on my ipad and noticed that while it's downloading unrelated content, the video comes to a complete stop. I have plenty of space left too. Is this typical?

aadmikep wrote:
I have a few music videos on my ipad and noticed that while it's downloading unrelated content,
You mean while you are download apps or a song at the same time that you are watching a video?
the video comes to a complete stop. I have plenty of space left too. Is this typical?
I don't know that it's typical. Having plenty of storage space available is not the same thing as having the available memory needed to seamlessly run all your apps if there are apps still running in the background. Maybe you just have too much going on at once if you are using apps that continue to run in the background when you are doing all of this. The iOS should shut down the other apps if the iPad needs the memory to continue running your current app, but too much background stuff going on might be part of the cause. From what I've read in many of these discussions, there really aren't that many apps that continue to run while you are "multitasking" so the memory should be there to do what you are trying to do.
It could also be your Internet connection at the time you are doing this. Download speeds and your connection to the servers could have some impact as well.
If you don't make a habit of doing this, try shutting your iPad off and restarting it. This will reset the device and that may help as well.
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