![]() ![]() It also requires the fastest internet connection in order to play smoothly. The maximum resolution available is typically selected by whoever uploaded the video, and results in the largest and clearest picture. On YouTube, you can click on the gear icon to select a different resolution. Sometimes they guess wrong, and you need to make a different choice. Some update their guess based on ongoing performance. The video player chooses a default based on a quick analysis of your device and internet connection. Many players provide video in multiple formats, including different sizes of video and different qualities. They’ll get a certain amount and then stop before it’s done, apparently waiting for playback to catch up. However, some video players or services limit how far ahead they’ll buffer. When you pause it, you give the download a head start, letting it fill the buffer with video ready to be played back. Pressing Play begins the streaming of the video. Most video players have either a separate Pause button, or changes the Play button to a Pause button, as in the example above. ![]() The first thing I try when faced with this is to start it playing, click on pause, and wait a while. If you never see the “video downloaded but not yet seen” gray bar during normal streaming playback, it’s likely that the download can’t keep up with playback, or can only just barely keep up.
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