Has anyone noticed Hulu buffering **bleep** on the TV Live? The Netflix app will buffer up to several minutes of video, making it possible to actually completely lose the Internet connection for almost 5 minutes while it continues to play (I’ve tried it). This is also evident by starting a movie on Netflix, hitting pause, and watching the Ethernet activity continue for several minutes.
On the other hand, Hulu only buffers a few seconds. This is bad for Internet connections with wildly fluctating bandwidth availability. Why can’t Hulu buffer more? It can’t use that much more RAM itself leaving no more for buffering.
This is with the quality settings turned way down on both services. Netflix is such a reliable streamer. Hulu, definatly not.
I recommend you to post this in the ideas boards, all apps on the WDTV are created by the provider of the service. In this case it seems to be the way that the Hulu app is currently made to work.
I found this to be true. The ISP where I live is not so good. I tried to use Hulu for about a year. It did not work out for the reason you described, plus I did not like the content and the unbearable advertising. I decided to try Netflix instead and have been a satisfied customer ever since.
I find the same thing on Youtube. i.e. the ads will play choppy and freeze up but once the main video gets going, it plays fine. This has always seemed to me to be a buffering issue.
jrmymllr wrote:
Has anyone noticed Hulu buffering **bleep** on the TV Live? The Netflix app will buffer up to several minutes of video, making it possible to actually completely lose the Internet connection for almost 5 minutes while it continues to play (I’ve tried it). This is also evident by starting a movie on Netflix, hitting pause, and watching the Ethernet activity continue for several minutes.
On the other hand, Hulu only buffers a few seconds. This is bad for Internet connections with wildly fluctating bandwidth availability. Why can’t Hulu buffer more? It can’t use that much more RAM itself leaving no more for buffering.
This is with the quality settings turned way down on both services. Netflix is such a reliable streamer. Hulu, definatly not.
I found this to be true. The ISP where I live is not so good. I tried to use Hulu for about a year. It did not work out for the reason you described, plus I did not like the content and the unbearable advertising. I decided to try Netflix instead and have been a satisfied customer ever since.
I find the same thing on Youtube. i.e. the ads will play choppy and freeze up but once the main video gets going, it plays fine. This has always seemed to me to be a buffering issue.
Good to hear someone else has noticed this. It may not do any good, but could you vote on my post in Ideas about this?
