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Difference between PAUSE and STOP
The main difference between pause and stop is described below:
- Pause: Will pause the playback, but the stream / file will still be downloaded in the background until the browser has completely cached the file.
- Stop: Will stop the playback and the background download of the stream / file.
The real difference can be seen when the played content is a live stream (in our examples the radio channels of example #2). When paused the content will still be downloaded until the browser-window
or browser-tab is closed. The reason is, that the download process never sees an end of the "file".
When stopped the download will also be stopped.
Unfortunately JWPlayer from version 5.x on doesn't have a stop-button any more. To stop downloading a once started playback of a live stream you have to close your browser-window
or browser-tab. From our
point of view this behavior is not ideal.
This is the main reason why we're using version 4.6.485 of JWPlayer on this web-page.
Remark: Some caching proxies will not recognize the stop command from the browser. Even when you exit the browser the proxy will continue downloading the stream. The only way to stop the traffic is to restart the proxy application.
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