The meter doesn't stream, and indeed plays right there on your computer.
If the meter doesn't play smoothly, something (often a combination of somethings) on your computer is causing it - to many garbage temp files, an application (or applications) running in the background, your browser is overflowing with cookies, browsing history, download history, cached images/files, passwords, autofill form data, hosted app data, media licenses, temp Internet files, the registry is chock full of leftovers, etc.