I've noticed this with different media streams as well. From youtube to google; the video often will start normally and then just hang like Karl explained, seems to be buffering but never recovers. I would also be interested to know if anyone has encountered and found a solution to this issue. BMatz -----Original Message----- From: Marcus Kool [mailto:marcus.kool@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 6:28 AM To: Karl Pielorz Cc: squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Streaming video content (e.g. BBC news to flash based player) - always stops? I live in Brazil and sometimes watch BBC videos using Squid without issues. Can you give a link to an example URL which causes problems ? Marcus Karl Pielorz wrote: > > Hi, > > We've tried running a number of Squid versions (from 2.7.9 through to > 3.2.0.9) but they all seem to suffer when streaming video content - most > notably from the BBC site in the UK. > > Unfortunately, afaik this content isn't available outside the UK (but > the US site might have content streamed in a similar manner). > > Videos will start, but they stop after a random amount of time (and the > 'player' on the client displays the 'rebuffering circle' - but never > starts again). > > Is anyone here using Squid - and able to successfully play content from > say news.bbc.co.uk? > > Anyone got any pointers what it could be? > > Accesses in the logs show as a stream of: > > " > 1310125310.161 561 172.16.20.22 TCP_MISS/200 272 POST > http://82.197.67.173:1935/idle/mKfmdz02zSLeGJSL/269 - > HIER_DIRECT/82.197.67.173 application/x-fcs > 1310125311.256 565 172.16.20.22 TCP_MISS/200 272 POST > http://82.197.67.173:1935/idle/mKfmdz02zSLeGJSL/270 - > HIER_DIRECT/82.197.67.173 application/x-fcs > " > > These seem to continue, even when the player has 'stopped'. > > Any pointers? > > Thanks, > > -Karl > >