Re: [squid-users] streaming live television and performance problems

From: Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:49:04 +1200

Andrej van der Zee wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have seen a few posts about caching and poor performance of video
> recently. I am also experiencing problems, but I am not sure the
> cause. I am using Squid exclusively for myself to access a live
> television streaming service in my home country. It works find for
> maybe 30 seconds, but then Windows Media Player starts re-buffering
> constantly. Could caching have something to do with this? And what is
> Squid actually trying to cache? The broadcast takes about 4 hours
> adding up to a few GBs. Is Squid trying to cache this in a single
> file?
>

Depends on the transmission server. But yes it probably is.

Amos

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