Definitions
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- verb computing, transitive To place into a
buffer in preparation for later retrieval orplayback .
Etymologies
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Examples
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They play perfectly smoothly in VLC when I set the prebuffer size to 12 seconds (yes, I know, that's quite large), but no matter how hard I try I cannot get Quicktime to play them smoothly.
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How do I tell Quicktime that it needs to prebuffer at least 12 seconds worth of data in order to smooth out all of the local fluctuations in bitrate?
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I once had the same prebuffer errors when the system time/UT (GMT) settings was wrong.
PCLinuxOS-Forums 2009
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2009-07-01 14: 48: 33.517 NVP: Waiting for prebuffer ..
PCLinuxOS-Forums 2009
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2009-07-01 14: 48: 33.250 NVP: Waiting for prebuffer ..
PCLinuxOS-Forums 2009
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2009-07-01 14: 48: 33.383 NVP: Waiting for prebuffer ..
PCLinuxOS-Forums 2009
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2009-07-01 14: 48: 33.250 NVP: Waiting for prebuffer ..
PCLinuxOS-Forums 2009
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2009-07-01 14: 48: 33.517 NVP: Waiting for prebuffer ..
PCLinuxOS-Forums 2009
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