# Wowzaplayer buffering on Chrome on PC - but no problems if force flash

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/wowzaplayer-buffering-on-chrome-on-pc-but-no-problems-if-force-flash/182>\
**Category:** Wowza Player\
**Created:** [December 10, 2016, 6:09pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowzaplayer-buffering-on-chrome-on-pc-but-no-problems-if-force-flash/182 "2016-12-10T18:09:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/system/32/447_2.png) [@system](https://community.wowza.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2016, 6:09pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowzaplayer-buffering-on-chrome-on-pc-but-no-problems-if-force-flash/182/1 "2016-12-10T18:09:43Z")

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Wowza player using HTML player on most live streams (except for the buffering problem and others) but attached is a profile from wirecast that buffers repeatedly 8 seconds after starting - and never re-starts.

This profile from FMLE produces the same problem:

But with “useFlash”:true, viewed side-by-side on the desktop there are no such problems. Which defeats the purpose of an HTML5 player :mad:

ys

Alan

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These logs are from the Wirecast broadcast:

00:00:02.686 INFO: AssetPlayerBase: Initial bitrate:316592

wowzaplayer.js:1 00:00:03.711 INFO: PlayerStreamer: creating sourceBuffers: videoCodec:avc1.640016 audioCodec:mp4a.40.2

wowzaplayer.js:1 00:00:03.713 INFO: PlayerStreamer: canPlay audio/mp4;codecs=“mp4a.40.2”: probably

wowzaplayer.js:1 00:00:03.715 INFO: PlayerStreamer: canPlay video/mp4;codecs=“avc1.640016”: probably

wowzaplayer.js:1 00:00:03.718 INFO: PlayerStreamerBase: loadChunk: media\_w1128266649\_427.ts d/p:476/113

wowzaplayer.js:1 00:00:03.795 INFO: PlayerStreamer: - DRAIN bitrate change at 0, sending INIT Fragments

wowzaplayer.js:1 00:00:03.796 INFO: PlayerStreamer: - DRAIN init video

wowzaplayer.js:1 00:00:03.797 INFO: PlayerStreamer: - DRAIN init audio

wowzaplayer.js:1 00:00:04.316 INFO: PlayerStreamerBase: loadChunk: media\_w1128266649\_428.ts d/p:369/48

wowzaplayer.js:1 00:00:04.696 INFO: PlayerStreamerBase: loadChunk: media\_w1128266649\_429.ts d/p:273/26

wowzaplayer.js:1 00:00:05.861 INFO: PlayerStreamer: - DRAIN init video

wowzaplayer.js:1 00:00:07.995 INFO: PlayerStreamer: - DRAIN init video

wowzaplayer.js:1 00:00:08.154 INFO: PlayerStreamer: - DRAIN init video

wowzaplayer.js:1 00:00:08.314 INFO: PlayerStreamer: - DRAIN init video

wowzaplayer.js:1 00:00:13.876 INFO: PlayerStreamerBase: - BUFFERING START

wowzaplayer.js:1 00:00:15.185 INFO: PlayerStreamerBase: loadChunk: media\_w1128266649\_430.ts d/p:513/46

wowzaplayer.js:1 00:00:15.252 INFO: PlayerStreamer: - DRAIN init video

wowzaplayer.js:1 00:00:15.409 INFO: PlayerStreamer: - DRAIN init video

wowzaplayer.js:1 00:00:26.769 INFO: PlayerStreamerBase: loadChunk: media\_w1128266649\_431.ts d/p:512/44

wowzaplayer.js:1 00:00:26.786 INFO: PlayerStreamer: - DRAIN init video

wowzaplayer.js:1 00:00:26.912 INFO: PlayerStreamer: - DRAIN init video

wowzaplayer.js:1 00:00:39.302 INFO: PlayerStreamerBase: loadChunk: media\_w1128266649\_432.ts d/p:1075/28

wowzaplayer.js:1 00:00:39.360 INFO: PlayerStreamer: - DRAIN init video

wowzaplayer.js:1 00:00:39.516 INFO: PlayerStreamer: - DRAIN init video

wowzaplayer.js:1 00:00:50.394 INFO: PlayerStreamerBase: loadChunk: media\_w1128266649\_433.ts d/p:601/69

wowzaplayer.js:1 00:00:50.464 INFO: PlayerStreamer: - DRAIN init video

wowzaplayer.js:1 00:00:50.620 INFO: PlayerStreamer: - DRAIN init video

wowzaplayer.js:1 00:01:01.887 INFO: PlayerStreamerBase: loadChunk: media\_w1128266649\_434.ts d/p:459/44

wowzaplayer.js:1 00:01:01.957 INFO: PlayerStreamer: - DRAIN init video

wowzaplayer.js:1 00:01:02.120 INFO: PlayerStreamer: - DRAIN init video

wowzaplayer.js:1 00:01:13.623 INFO: PlayerStreamerBase: loadChunk: media\_w1128266649\_435.ts d/p:656/23

wowzaplayer.js:1 00:01:13.683 INFO: PlayerStreamer: - DRAIN init video

wowzaplayer.js:1 00:01:13.841 INFO: PlayerStreamer: - DRAIN init video

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**Author:** ![Jason\_Tuchler](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/jason_tuchler/32/462_2.png) [@Jason\_Tuchler](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jason_Tuchler)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 9:26am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowzaplayer-buffering-on-chrome-on-pc-but-no-problems-if-force-flash/182/2 "2017-01-04T09:26:01Z")

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Hello,

I would recommend going over this [Encoding Guide.](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-encode-source-video-for-wowza-streaming-cloud#vbitrate)

Then try H264, 30 fps, 640x360 frame-size, 1024 kbps bitrate, Main Profile, with a keyframe every 60 frames to see if you see improvement.

Regards,

JasonT