What does it mean when the real player says “Buffering”?
Buffering is RealPlayer’s way of receiving and storing some of the stream before you access it. Before you are able to see a video or listen to a file on the Internet, RealPlayer downloads a portion of the file on to your machine and then starts to play it. This lets RealPlayer begin playing a stored part of the file while the rest of the file downloads. If the file stops playing and RealPlayer displays a message saying it is buffering, RealPlayer is giving the downloading information time to catch up to the speed of the actual presentation of music or video.
