# FLV buffer - movie is playing too soon!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flv-buffer-movie-is-playing-too-soon/121904>\
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**Created:** [September 8, 2004, 1:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flv-buffer-movie-is-playing-too-soon/121904 "2004-09-08T13:05:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![ten4goodbuddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@ten4goodbuddy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ten4goodbuddy)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 1:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flv-buffer-movie-is-playing-too-soon/121904/1 "2004-09-08T13:05:37Z")

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Hi, I’m new here. Thanks in advance for any help!

This may be really simple, but my video keeps stopping as the progress bar meets the buffer. Could this be simply my connection speed? Can I tell the movie to wait a while until the buffer is like half full?

[http://www.mikearmstrong.net/earhole](http://www.mikearmstrong.net/earhole) (movies are under ‘reel’ section)

thanks!