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Video Playback Buffering

  • October 6, 2026
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GCash
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Hello! Is there a setting you can do on AT so that videos buffer when trying to watch them on the app? Rather than piecemeal as you watch them. It makes watching videos in AT pretty painful. 

 

You have to let the video basically stutter and buffer. There's no way to let the whole video buffer and then watch it

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Mercerntino
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  • October 6, 2026

I’ve run into this kind of issue with Airtable video attachments before. I don’t believe there’s currently a setting to force the entire video to buffer before playback. It may depend on the video size, connection, and how Airtable is streaming the attachment. Downloading the video first may be the smoother workaround


GCash
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  • October 6, 2026

Thanks for the quick response! We are running it on our phones and we often find that sometimes the video won’t download in general so its kind of a double edged sword… Do you have any advice around this? 

 


Mercerntino
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Yeah, that makes it a bit trickier. If the videos are being accessed mainly on phones, I’d first check whether the issue happens with all videos or only larger ones


Mercerntino
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​@GCash 

It could be related to the plan if you’re running into the attachment storage limits, but I don’t think the buffering itself is necessarily a Free-plan limitation