If I watch to 1:20 in then click back to 1:00 the video will load, but if I’ve already watched that part wouldn’t it be “stored” on my side of the browser?
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Your player only keeps so big of a buffer, usually a small number of seconds to prevent jitter due to lag at the source. By the time you’re at 1:20 it’s already erased what it had in memory for 1:00, so it has to fetch it again when you go back.
You can control the buffer size with some players. For example, VLC defaults to a 1.5 second buffer, but you can increase it to whatever you want as long as you have enough memory on your computer.
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