Admin setting to customize the player buffering behaviour

[stemy2]

Describe the problem to be solved

Hello,

My connection is pretty slow, and i'd like to change the buffering behaviour to reduce the annoyance.

Describe the solution you would like

-Allow buffering when video is paused.
-Allow buffering until the end of the video once for all.

[frenzybiscuit]

-Allow buffering until the end of the video once for all.

No thank you! When you factor in high quality (40Mbps+ bitrate) 4k videos that could be up to an hour long loading the entire video into the buffer would be a complete nightmare!

You would be literally throwing away bandwidth on the server if the user closes the video before finishing it.

If you need this feature you should consider editing the source code and compiling peertube yourself from scratch!

Here is a guide for compiling:

https://docs.joinpeertube.org/install/unofficial

Also, PR's are welcome if you can get this feature to work in a way that won't be abused.

[stemy2]

I'm not advanced enough in coding to compile a such thing. Why not add the options in a server config file ? I intent using it on a confidential instance.

[frenzybiscuit]

-Allow buffering when video is paused.

It already does this!

[frenzybiscuit]

advanced enough in coding to compile a such thing. Why not add the options in a server config file ? I intent using it on a confidential instance.

Why don't you just enable video downloads and let users download the video?

It's literally the same thing if you want the entire video to load into the buffer.

[Chocobozzz]

Reopening this issue because an admin setting to customize the player buffer behaviour seems a good idea.

[frenzybiscuit]

Just curious, is there a limitation on how large the buffer can be?