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Have you considered trying to hack some sort of 'double buffered' style approach to transitions? You could conceivably open a hidden player that's loading in the background while the visible one is playing, and flip between them, dumping the previously visible player's video and always buffering the next chunk in the hidden bit.

This idea has been something my friends and I discussed a lot at one time or another, it's really cool to see it in action.

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I did try something like that where I loaded all the video segments at once and hid all but the current segment with CSS. However I wasn't able to get it working how I wanted, there were still loading delays and some visual glitches when switching clips, it also was a little unreliable. After fiddling with it, trying different hiding and timing methods and not getting the results I wanted I opted for a much simpler system. But, I think that a "double buffer" system could have improved playback if I'd spent more time on it.

Thanks!

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