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Stop Buffering While Downloading MP3

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Posted: Sat, 2009-11-21 15:06 Jesse
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I use the audio player to play DJ mixes that can be well over an hour long. I have also enabled the download button and I use a force download PHP script with it to pop up the save file dialogue. The JW player pauses the audio when the download is triggered, but *it doesn't stop buffering*. So the user will be downloading the file while it's buffering in the player, which means 2x bandwidth is being used.

Can you please revise the download function so the player not only pauses during download but stops buffering?

Thanks

Posted: Thu, 2009-12-03 13:36 Jesse  
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Anyone? Please help me out.

Posted: Sat, 2009-12-05 01:26 zach at longtail  
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The only way to stop buffering is to close the stream, which would make it impossible to resume playback from the same position.

Posted: Sun, 2010-01-17 03:20 DM  
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Hi

What about enabling HTML text so we can put the download link in the description field of the playlist?

The problem is that you need to select a file to then download it with the button, but it has already started playing when you selected it.

If I could have an HTML "download" link in the textfield, users could avoid the double bandwidth issues mentioned above.

Thanks

Posted: Fri, 2010-02-05 21:27 amen  
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The problem is that you need to select a file to then download it with the button, but it has already started playing when you selected it.

Posted: Fri, 2010-02-05 21:31 amen  
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select a file to then download

Posted: Fri, 2010-02-05 21:34 amen  
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So the user will be downloading

Posted: Fri, 2010-07-23 07:02 Xavier  
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Jesse ,

If you ve got the solution , Il' interested too.
I use a lot of sigle player in one page. Then if someone clicks on one tune then another then others... it starts to buffer all the files ! of course I'd like that a clic on "play" allows buffering and a clic on "pause" STOPS BUFFERING
Have you got the solution since 2009-11-21 ?

thanks

Posted: Sat, 2010-07-31 16:35 Jesse  
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Hi

No solution. Does the developer even check this forum??

All we need is HTML-enabled playlist descriptions. Still not ideal, but much better than the current.

Thanks

Posted: Sun, 2010-08-01 21:10 Jesse  
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anyone from JW want to comment? anyone?

Posted: Tue, 2010-08-03 17:58 Jesse  
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still waiting - HTML support in playlist descriptions?

Posted: Tue, 2010-08-03 18:20 PabloS  
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@Jesse -

Sorry for the delayed response. Neither the audio player nor the general media player support full HTML in the playlist descriptions, since it isn't supported by Flash. The JW Player does support a JavaScript API which allows users to create their own HTML/JS playlists.

An example can be found here: http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/jw-player/jw-player-for-flash-v5/23/creating-a-javascript-playl...

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