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Buffer underrun observation guide

An interpretive observation guide for seeing a streaming pause as the late symptom of an exhausted reserve.

Accession: MW-F-010
Representative period: Streaming field note, 2000–present
Drawer: Instructions & warnings
Certainty: high

MUSEUM OF WAITING / RECONSTRUCTED RECORD MW-F-010

Buffer underrun observation guide

Streaming field note, 2000–present

Observed surface

A pause is the visible event; depletion began earlier.

Observe incoming rate, stored duration, and playback consumption separately.

Do not infer a single cause from the spinner alone.

Implied procedure

Record whether recovery resumes at the same quality, a lower quality, or from a new segment boundary.

Distinguish a deliberate reserve from delay caused before delivery begins.

Interpretive residue

The guide relocates attention from the symbol at the centre of the screen to a contest between three clocks.

Playback succeeds when arrival can remain ahead of consumption, not when either is perfectly smooth.

Accountability record

Evidence beneath the reconstruction.

These institutional sources support the mechanism or historical practice interpreted above. They do not contain this reconstructed record, its wording, or its invented values.