Is there a way to prevent rebuffering?
To prevent rebuffering when playing streaming media at speeds greater than 1.0, you may have to change your RealPlayer Connection speed settings. RealPlayer and RealServer technologies support streaming media at speeds faster than the encoded bitrate through the RTSP protocol. RealPlayer will cap the connection speed at the ‘Normal’ setting however, thus causing rebuffering when playing faster than normal. If you get rebuffering, you might want to increase your connection speed settings. To do so: • Start RealPlayer • Pull down the View Menu, choose Preferences • Click on the Connection tab • Set your Maximum bandwidth as high as it can go (10 Mbps LAN) • Increment your Normal bandwidth up one notch from its current position. For instance, if you were at 56Kbps Modem, try 112Kbps Dual ISDN, or 256 Kbps DSL. Be careful with this setting however, because if you set it too high, RealPlayer may initially choose a higher bandwidth encoding which could be beyond your connection’s actual band
