Title: heavy / variable video buffering?
Last modified: May 31, 2021

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# heavy / variable video buffering?

 *  [Tommy B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vegantommy/)
 * (@vegantommy)
 * [5 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/heavy-variable-video-buffering/)
 * Hi there. I’m trying to optimize the loading time of our homepage and I noticed
   in the element inspector that the amount of time buffered for each video on the
   home page vary from browser to browser, despite the fact that I selected the 
   setting not to buffer anything in the option. Also, in Firefox, when I activate
   the extention “Video Download Helper”, it makes the browser cache more data for
   each video. Is there a proper way I can disable all of this caching on the whole
   website, no matter what browser I’m using?
 * Check those print screens i just made.
    [https://imgur.com/a/ma1kIg1](https://imgur.com/a/ma1kIg1)
 * Thanks, Tommy

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 *  Plugin Author [Kyle Gilman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kylegilman/)
 * (@kylegilman)
 * [5 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/heavy-variable-video-buffering/#post-14504217)
 * Which setting did you select to not buffer anything? The setting I would recommend
   is the Videopack plugin setting “Preload” in the Video Controls section and set
   it to “none”
 * Beyond that there’s not much you can do to control what a browser does. And you
   can’t stop people from downloading things like Video Download Helper, so there’s
   no way to anticipate that sort of user behavior.
 *  Thread Starter [Tommy B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vegantommy/)
 * (@vegantommy)
 * [5 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/heavy-variable-video-buffering/#post-14517003)
 * Thanks for that quick reply. The preload setting you’re talking about is already
   set to “none”… but obviously, we are facing a problem that will require special
   attention. Our website plans to drive much more visitor soon, i’m migrating to
   vps instead of shared hosting… where i’ll be able to use bandwidth management
   tunings in Apache… but I will also need to seperate the video hosting from the
   actual wordpress server… because I don’t want page loading to be affected by 
   how many people are seeking thru videos. Last sunday, on 3 different platform,
   there were a total of 4000 live viewers on alexis’s show and the goal is to gather
   all the viewers to that new website…
 * We will also reduce the number of videos available on the homepage, that will
   reduce the overall “browser decided” buffering time.
 * We might also change our approach taking example from YouTube where all videos
   shown on the homepage are just thumbnails that links to video pages… I guess 
   otherwise they would be facing the same problem as we are?
 *  Plugin Author [Kyle Gilman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kylegilman/)
 * (@kylegilman)
 * [5 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/heavy-variable-video-buffering/#post-14517028)
 * I highly recommend YouTube’s approach. Multiple videos on your home page are 
   a recipe for high bandwidth use.
 * Can you also post a link to your site? In general if you’ve set preload to none
   the browser shouldn’t preload anything.
 *  Thread Starter [Tommy B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vegantommy/)
 * (@vegantommy)
 * [5 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/heavy-variable-video-buffering/#post-14517040)
 * radioquebec.tv

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