<p>I think browsers usually don't have configurable buffer sizes for streaming.  If you can get the video URL out of the browser, you could stream with <a href="http://mpv.io/" rel="nofollow">mpv</a> or something.</p>

<pre><code>mpv --cache-secs=15 http://example.org/video.mp4
</code></pre>

<p>mpv has several other cache-tuning options.</p>

<p>As far as using a VPN: your ISP still sees the traffic.  It just doesn't see that it's an HTTP request, and even deep packet inspection won't be able to tell that it's streaming video.  I think most ISPs, if they do any QoS-based traffic shaping, would prioritize streaming audio/video to prevent annoyances when realtime matters, unlike torrent downloads.  So putting your traffic inside a VPN would if anything make it worse, in most cases, I'd expect.</p>

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<p>i want to know how to improvee the performance of video streaming (in the client side), like raise the cache of the browser or use a vpn (to hide the video traffic so the isp don't do traffic shapping).</p>

<p>Well, feel free to edit this question to add more examples.</p>

<p>Thx :)</p>

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Enrique San Martín
# How get a better quality of streaming?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2015-06-09)

i want to know how to improvee the performance of video streaming (in the client side), like raise the cache of the browser or use a vpn (to hide the video traffic so the isp don't do traffic shapping).

Well, feel free to edit this question to add more examples.

Thx :)

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### Answer by username_1 on 2015-06-16. Score: 2

I think browsers usually don't have configurable buffer sizes for streaming.  If you can get the video URL out of the browser, you could stream with mpv or something.
mpv --cache-secs=15 http://example.org/video.mp4

mpv has several other cache-tuning options.
As far as using a VPN: your ISP still sees the traffic.  It just doesn't see that it's an HTTP request, and even deep packet inspection won't be able to tell that it's streaming video.  I think most ISPs, if they do any QoS-based traffic shaping, would prioritize streaming audio/video to prevent annoyances when realtime matters, unlike torrent downloads.  So putting your traffic inside a VPN would if anything make it worse, in most cases, I'd expect.


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