"Several minutes" sounds long, but a few seconds of that could be
explained by deliberate buffering. In VLC, if you choose
Media->OpenNetwork, there is a "Show more options" checkbox that will
let you see, and change, the number of milliseconds that it will buffer
before playing.
--ronan
> Folks,
> Been watching the video stream from the launch of STS-128 and now the
> approach to docking.
>
> One thing I have noticed, it takes for ever to get video, and it is not exactly
> on time, appearing (depending on what I am using to view it ) to be from 3
> seconds to a couple of minutes delayed.
>
> I notice that the video shown in Firefox is the fastest, but when I open the
> page it takes several minutes to get a video and audio stream.
>
> If i use VLC it gets worse, anywhere from 3 to a tens of seconds behind
> Firefox. I used to be able to see these things almost as soon as I clicked
> on them, it seems it has gotten slower and slower.
>
> Is this just the nature of the thing or is it something I need to tweak??
>
> My incoming data rate is 7.5MB at slowest rate. The data rate of the video
> stream is much slower than that.
>
> I am seeing the same thing on both Ubuntu 9.04 and SuSE 11.1
>
> I no longer have a windows box so I can not compare to one of those
> things.
>
>
>
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