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  • verb Present participle of rebuffer.

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Examples

  • Research firm Tubemogul found that more than 81 percent of all online video viewers click away if they encounter a video that's rebuffering.

    This week in search 12/18/09 2009

  • Research firm Tubemogul found that more than 81 percent of all online video viewers click away if they encounter a video that's rebuffering.

    Archive 2009-12-01 2009

  • Whenever a station was playing, the iheartradio app ran without any problems with decent sound quality over Edge and WiFi networks, and only a single rebuffering dropout.

    Wired Top Stories 2009

  • Chapweske claims that Swarmcast was able to webcast a six-hour musical tribute to Nelson Mandela on iClips Network this month "so that the user (could) stay tuned in for hours and hours on end and never see any sort of interruption, jittering, rebuffering or anything like that."

    Live Music Webcasting Starts Making Sense in 2008 2007

  • Hopefully the rebuffering will clear up as they recover from TC/Digg, but 32 kbps, or whatever it is, basically kills this service (unless they slide bit rate for high volume, which would be awfully fancy).

    Lala Launches On-demand Free Streaming Music Service Nick Gonzalez 2005

  • I wish that the CBC would adopt this for their Internet radio streams, which are 99 percent busied-out and have a lot of rebuffering problems.

    Boing Boing: June 30, 2002 - July 6, 2002 Archives 2002

  • Is there a specific format (AVI or other) that would be optimized for Tivo/Streambaby which would minimize the rebuffering problem when playing a movie?

    TiVo Community atomarchio 2010

  • Is there a specific format (AVI or other) that would be optimized for Tivo/Streambaby which would minimize the rebuffering problem when playing a movie?

    TiVo Community atomarchio 2010

  • Here's the video compatibility list for native playback on the TiVo, requiring no transcoding (which it sounds like is happening with some of your rebuffering videos):

    TiVo Community atomarchio 2010

  • Is there a specific format (AVI or other) that would be optimized for Tivo/Streambaby which would minimize the rebuffering problem when playing a movie?

    TiVo Community atomarchio 2010

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