James Asherman wrote: > > On Sep 14, 2005, at 11:39 AM, keith_w wrote: > >> Okay, thanks. >> To me, that sounds like something is certainly inadequate ~ not up to >> the task given it. >> What might that be? >> >> keith > Could be: connection speed, disc access speed. or even disc fragmentation , > but it's just as likely that the problem is the other end, a slow > server, or the encoding itself. > > I sometimes see this with SOME videos at the iTunes music store, and in > QuickTime > it is really easy to see the buffering running ahead of the playback and > how it gets bad when they get close to one another. In other words, you can't really fix it, so find a way to live with it... Thanks for the explanation! keith