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Found this dusty antique from the days when video players would let you buffer. If only this were still a thing. (startrek.website)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Why did this change? Was it a greed thing?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Not at all. If your hard drive would get crippled by a few GBs then I don't know what to tell you. When the playback is stopped, and the application closed, then the temporary files are discarded.

The argument about bandwidth usage is accurate though. I didn't make sense to buffer the whole video when it might not be watched anyways.