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I have been having some issues with download speed and buffereing on mobile devices with Amazon S3 hosting, do you have any solutions for that?
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Hello Inka,
Could you send me a link to your website where I could test this?
Thanks,
Eduard
Hello Inka,
It would also help if you could use the built-in video checker, take a screenshot of the report and post it here.
Thanks,
EduardSomeone just told me it’s because I have to upload multiple sizes of the same video in one file for HLS streaming, is that possible with the FV player and do you have a link to something that describes how to do that?
Thank you!
Here is a link to a test. The problem is the buffering when there is no wifi on a mobile phone. With wifi on a mobile phone it works fine.
Hi Inka,
Re-encoding an MP4 to HLS is possible for free via the FFmeg multimedia framework (here’s a guide on how to do it – How to Convert MP4 to HLS), or you can do so with Amazon Elastic Transcoder, but that can be done only for a fee (as most of AWS services). You can follow our guide How to setup encrypted HLS stream with Amazon Elastic Transcoder to do so, just skip the part about the encryption.
As for the slower buffering of your video – the file is hosted on Amazon S3 and the server is located in the North California region (US West 1). I’m located in Central Europe, therefore it takes more time to load data from a server located that far.
If your website has a global audience, you should probably consider using a CDN, for example AWS CloufFront.
Thanks,
Eduard
