Re: CNN "free videos"



Nate Goldshlag <nate@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Can anybody get these to work reliably? They sometimes work, sometimes
> don't. When you quit the browser (Safari or Firefox) and relaunch
> sometimes they work, sometimes not. Very discouraging. The paid Real
> videos used to work totally reliably.


Yeah, I've seen that with many sites. It pretty much depends on how fast
your connection with the server is (and how many users they have at the
same time). Beside reloading the video again and again there isn't much
you can do as far as I know,



Corentin

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