With the advent of high-speed internet, the online video viewing function has become very popular among PC users. There are plenty of advantages here - you can watch a movie without downloading it and without purchasing a disc in a store, and recently the function of watching videos in high definition has also appeared.
In order to determine why your movies "slow down" when watching online, refer, first of all, to the configuration of your equipment. In the properties of the "My Computer" menu, view the settings for the frequency of the processor and RAM. Read an overview of your video card on the Internet. If the hardware is capable of playing video online, the problem may be with the software.
Check for updates for your browser. Do the same with the flash player that is installed on your computer to play movies online and other content of Internet resources. Launch the browser settings panel and see if the add-ons have installed plugins that can slow down the playback of media content through the browser. Also check your security settings.
If you are okay with your computer configuration and software, it is possible that the problem is your internet connection speed. To find out this parameter, open the following page in your browser: https://speedtest.net/. On this site, you can check the connection speed of the current connection by first pausing the current downloads.
The optimal value for smooth video playback in high quality is 3 megabits per second, but this can also depend on individual characteristics. For video playback, a speed of 512 or even 256 kilobits per second may also be quite enough, but in this case you will have to wait a little while the video is loaded.
While watching videos online, you should not run various games, graphic editors and other programs on your computer that require a certain amount of resources. Also, do not download files from the Internet at the same time as downloading videos.
