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iPad Safari Video Player Question

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Ronin64

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Mar 3, 2012
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Hi,
I thinking of picking up an iPad or the rumoured iPad mini and I will mostly be using it for browsing the internet. But I have really slow internet and normally when I want to watch a video on my Mac I will let the video load in another tab. Then when its fully loaded I will watch it.
So can the iPad load the entire video or does the iPads browser only load the video while your watch it, like a streaming video player or UStream?

Thanks in advance.
 
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Menneisyys2

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Jun 7, 2011
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Ronin64 said:
Hi,
I thinking of picking up an iPad or the rumoured iPad mini and I will mostly be using it for browsing the internet. But I have really slow internet and normally when I want to watch a video on my Mac I will let the video load in another tab. Then when its fully loaded I will watch it.
So can the iPad load the entire video or does the iPads browser only load the video while your watch it, like a streaming video player or UStream?

Thanks in advance.
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It'll download videos in an inactive tab (just tested to be absolutely sure.)

However, even the iPad 3 is affected by the memory shortage question that it may also kill background tabs entirely. That is, it's always better to make sure nothing else runs when you start a lengthy caching section.

Alternitevly, if you can and the video file is downloadable, use a multimedia player with a sprcific downloader module - preferably one with resume support. There are many of them; let me know if you'd like to see a list of them. (I've also tested them in this regard.)
 
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Ronin64

macrumors member
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Mar 3, 2012
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Menneisyys2 said:
It'll download videos in an inactive tab (just tested to be absolutely sure.)

However, even the iPad 3 is affected by the memory shortage question that it may also kill background tabs entirely. That is, it's always better to make sure nothing else runs when you start a lengthy caching section.

Alternitevly, if you can and the video file is downloadable, use a multimedia player with a sprcific downloader module - preferably one with resume support. There are many of them; let me know if you'd like to see a list of them. (I've also tested them in this regard.)
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Ok, it will cache the video, good to know.
And about the video downloading. Is that like those FireFox extensions that allow you to rip Youtube/Flash videos?
 
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