Almost always when a video stop/starts for buffering, it's because the bitrate of the video is higher than the Internet connection downlaod speed.
The bitrate is the measurement of data that is required to play the video uninterupted. Say that the video bitrate is 1500kbps, but the effective download speed of your connection is 1200kbps... the video just cannot continue playing until it gets more data, so it buffers.
There may be some connection to the inner working of the video player, but I have my doubts. My guess is that perhaps the new version is allowing or requesting the high bitrate videos from sites like YouTube, the so called HiDef video...when your Internet connection speed can't support it.
First off, monitor your Internet connection speed over a period of time, look for flucuation during the day when speed increases/decreases. Check it here:
http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/
Then when you are on YouTube or other sites with choices of bandwidth (bitrate), choose the lower bitrate and see if that works without buffering. Check your connection speed... see how it goes. Remember, you need more bandwidth than just the bitrate of the video to play the video uninteruppted. I'd recommend double or so.
For testing purposes, you could always upload a few videos of know bitrate to a Web site (but NOT one which recommpresses the video), and test to find what your average max bitrate is.
Best wishes,
Adninjastrator
Great advice by the way. I was searching for another user and saw this in the "More like this"
