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Regardless of how I set the "Buffer Size" in the controls for Video, the video does not actually seem to be buffering when Auto Start is enabled for video. For example, I set the buffer for 10; the video begins buffering-- as indicated by the load bar advancing in the video player transport, and the video does not start-- it is waiting for about 10 seconds for the data to load, which it is doing. After 10 seconds of buffering, instead of the video beginning to playback smoothly at the beginning of the video, it "jumps" and skips ahead to about 10 seconds into the video-- making it stop, glitch or stutter. If it is set at 20 the same thing happens with the video jumping to 20 seconds into the video after its buffered for 20 seconds-- . Obviously, in "auto Start", video buffers at approximately the same rate as it *trying* to play, so it never gets to stream smoothly in any circumstances. Is there some way that the buffering could be fixed, altered or in some manner rigged so that it actually buffers in Auto Play mode?

I checked and can confirm that bufferTime does not seem to work how you might expect. I did some initial research, and I am actually a bit unsure of how it is supposed to work for non-streaming servers ...
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AS2LCR/Flas ... 02386.html

Like you say, it seems it has no effect. However, I need to figure out what kinda effect it is supposed to have for non-streaming server. I will look into this for next release X2.7. Thanks for reporting!

Thank you for taking a look at this. I think that what might be going on is that the imagevue control that is used for "autostart" should be given the command to wait exactly the same length as the buffer before starting. So if set to Autostart as well as buffer, and the buffer is 20 seconds, then the autostart in actuality waits 20 seconds... then begins paying automatically. As it is now it is not doing this, but rather it shows that it is waiting and jumps ahead as soon as the buffer ends to the amount it would have played when starting automatically.

There is a function "bufferTime" in flash, but it seems that maybe this only works from real streaming video servers. If what you say is the case, I will need to create a custom function for this ... As mentioned, I will look into this for next release.