– Why, when on a slow connection, does a video often manage to play through once, but have difficulty replaying?

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– Why, when on a slow connection, does a video often manage to play through once, but have difficulty replaying?

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Answer 1

Reddit has the worst video caching, ever. Video routinely plays through once, then “hey watch this video”, …buffering, “oh, nevermind.” The data made it to my device, but now it’s gone and the Reddit app needs to consume more metered data to replay it? Pausing doesn’t cause pre-buffering for slow connections, instead auto chooses lowest res possible so captions are illegible. Fix your app Reddit!