Video playing choppy... Cache too slow or...?

PeerTube
#1

When I tried to play video clips in my instance (https://peertube.slat.org/) I found video playing quite choppy, i.e., play for a few seconds then paused, then play another second, then paused again, … and so on.

For example when watching this: A Day In The Life Of The Buddha by Bhikkhu Bodhi - 軟體自由協會 PeerTube 影音平台

I have to pause it and wait for several minutes so that I can play it smoothly.

I have no idea how peertube caches the stream… not sure if it is because of p2p connection or not. But anyway when watching almost all videos on YouTube I rarely met such choppy playing. It’s very much about the user experiences… do you have any idea about the stream caching, and any way to improve it?

#2

Hi,

Enabling HLS transcoding on the instance should fix this issue. See PeerTube documentation for more information

#3

In my configurations I enabled WebTorrent and HLS. Should I disable WebTorrent? I tried disabling WebTorrent and leaving HLS (which is grayed out when disabling WebTorrent) checked but it was still choppy watching the video listed above. Do I have to check new videos or reload/cache the video?

Thanks for your reply!

#4

After changing the configuration, you need to re run transcoding on old videos. You can do that in Administration -> Overviews -> Videos page

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