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Problems with High Quality iPlayer?

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You may have noticed recently that some of the programs on the iPlayer offer you the chance to watch them in the new beta high quality player. This is great as I have a Mac Mini connected to my TV, so I get on demand BBC programs in HD (ish) for free (well at no extra cost).

However when watching I noticed that it kept stopping, I was unable to start it again unless I refreshed the page, which then meant I had to skip back to where I was to continue my viewing pleasure. I noticed that there was a pattern to this, and it was after about 20 minutes or so.

I think this is something to do with the flash player running out of memory, and not being able to buffer more of the program, which would make sense as I am only seeing this with the HD programs and a refresh of the page fixes it.

By right clicking on the player you can go to settings and change the local storage size, however I think this is just for local stored objects (flash cookies) rather than something like a movie, however after changing this to unlimited I had no problem... (as of yet). It may be that scrubbing information is stored in there, but that's just a wild guess.

I would be interested to know if anyone else is having this problem, and if they are how they resolved it. I remember having a problem in the early days with my router, but this is more of a subtle problem, and I'm sure I'm not the only one! So let me know if you have any ideas!

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