: Videos are "choppy"/"laggy" - Just aren't smooth on web server I have a video (background) for my website and (I'm sure there's a much more technical word for this) it's choppy, to say the

@Angela700

52MB is pretty big size for a website video background and your data rate is around 15 Mbps which is very high. A typical video background should be around 4-8MB with datarate of around 3-4Mbps.

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@Deb1703797

I dont think your webserver has much to do with it. I'm guessing it's the bandwith at the users end. It plays at 16,962kbps, which stand for 16,962kb/sec, which is roughly about 16mb per sec.
Your actual video is compressed, it gets decompressed when playing, (That's why the file is smaller), but even the compressed stream has to go quite fast. Most connections don't go that fast, so it gets laggy.

What you want is to lower the bandwith. This can be done by lowering the quality to 90%. If it's just a background, 80% might not be a problem either. Alternatively, you could lower the resolution. Both solution will lower the quality, but will result in lower bandwidths.



If you can, just upload it to Youtube, and use their HTML5 embed API to play it in the background. Better browser support, responsive bitrates, fast playback, not your bandwidth.

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