Controlling video buffer on iPhone
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With our inline video playback for iPhone you can control the video buffer. There are two reasons why you would want to be able to do this:
- You might want to save on your server/CDN traffic by reducing maximum buffer time so that our player loads only enough data for the current playback.
- It is a good idea to also set minimum buffer so that on slow connections after stalling the player waits till it has the specified number of seconds pre-loaded before it re-starts playback. Otherwise a user might experience quite choppy playback.
The example above showcases the second important application. In it a video is served using apache's mod_ratelimit to simulate slow connection (it might take a few seconds to load first data).
As you can see it provides more comfortable playback. Learn how to set up buffer settings on the main inline video for iPhone page.