2024-01-30, 06:16 PM
To explain my last point, it depends entirely on the network between my phone/laptop, Tailscale, and the Jellyfin server.
First, there's almost always some "random" amount of time that I have to wait before any video starts playing. My guess would be that higher bitrate content takes longer to load.
Second, when the video actually starts playing, there are times that it plays fully without stopping. Other times, the video stops and buffers. When it buffers, I wait a few seconds to a minute, then resume play and the video plays again. After this point, the whole video plays fully, or some time later more buffering happens. It appears random to me because most of the variables that affect this are out of my control.
First, there's almost always some "random" amount of time that I have to wait before any video starts playing. My guess would be that higher bitrate content takes longer to load.
Second, when the video actually starts playing, there are times that it plays fully without stopping. Other times, the video stops and buffers. When it buffers, I wait a few seconds to a minute, then resume play and the video plays again. After this point, the whole video plays fully, or some time later more buffering happens. It appears random to me because most of the variables that affect this are out of my control.