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The HTML5 media player might stutter if you try to play 128kps audio with only 128kbps of bandwidth. Of course no one does that. I am no one.

Jango Raid [jango-raid.ml] compensates for stutter with an algorithm based on the seven second rule [wikipedia.org]. The media player is checked every seven seconds to confirm that seven seconds of playback have occurred. If not then a rewind or abort is done depending on the length of successful playback.

Between 6 - 7 seconds is normal playback. No correction is done. The buffer is expected to handle this.

Between 5 - 6 seconds is stuttered playback. A minor rewind is done. Time is stepped backward by one millisecond to force the player to flush its buffer and continue playing.

Between 0 - 5 seconds is stalled playback. A major rewind is done. Time is stepped backward by at most seven seconds with the hope that buffered data plus newly incoming data will total seven seconds.

Between 1 - 5 seconds is recovering playback. If a major rewind was previously attempted then a minor rewind is done instead.

Between 0 - 1 seconds is failed playback. If a major rewind has already been attempted then playback is aborted and the next track is loaded.

Rewind was inspired by Fetty Wap [songlyrics.com].

She walk past, I press rewind
To see that ass one more time