There's nothing worse than a video buffering right as the plot thickens. Improving streaming video quality and speed may not be entirely within your control, but there are still a number of options to attempt.

Choppy Playback

If you find your streaming video will play at an acceptable speed for a few minutes or seconds, but then pauses to buffer continuously, this may be an issue with your computer. There are three possible solutions for this problem.

Begin by turning off "Hardware Acceleration," an option available in the Control Panel under Settings and Advanced. In the Troubleshoot tab drag the slider completely to the left. If you are using a Macintosh computer there is no automatic Hardware Acceleration, so this option is not available to you. Hardware Acceleration is meant to cause all running programs to use the same universal setting. By turning this option off you will enable each program to run as it wishes.