Muzman on 8/6/2012 at 04:39
Youtube seem to have altered the way videos load now. Before if you paused one you were watching it'd keep loading the whole thing. Now it only caches a few seconds in advance (like ten or something).
This is generally a good idea for the giant videos they are hosting these days, so you don't end up loading ten hours of nyan cat by mistake etc. It's also good, in theory, for keeping down bandwidth costs on both ends, I guess.
The trouble is, if you have a slow or flakey connection ( o/ Hello! ) you get a lot more of that "An Error has occurred" or the video just decides its finished and starts again from the beginning. So, what's ostensibly helpful for the slow or short on bandwidth, actually isn't a lot of the time. Oh well, worth a try I guess.
This post has no questions and is totally apropos of nothing!
SubJeff on 8/6/2012 at 05:23
I wondered what the hell was going on. And I'm sure it only does it for some videos. I hate it.
sNeaksieGarrett on 8/6/2012 at 22:12
I've noticed that too and it's rather annoying in my opinion. What usually happens is I'll be wanting to watch something but I have to wait for it to load dynamically rather than set it to load and walk away. In one way it makes sense as you said for bandwidth reasons, but in another way it's just annoying because if you want to jump to anywhere in the video it has to load more each time. Doesn't look like there's a way to change it either.
Koki on 9/6/2012 at 05:26
If I remember correctly, the several seconds preload only happens on 480p. 360p and 720p always loaded fully for me.
Muzman on 12/6/2012 at 16:19
They all cache partially for me. Maybe it's vaguely clever and tests the connection or something.
lost_soul on 25/6/2012 at 20:01
As someone with a shitty 1.5 mb/s connection myself, this Problem could be solved so easily.
test client_bandwidth
if client_bandwidth <=1500kbps
use classic_streaming_method
else if client_bandwidth >1500kbps
use new_streaming_method
done
june gloom on 26/6/2012 at 09:14
Shitty 1.5 MB/s? Motherfucker you do not know the meaning of shitty.
SubJeff on 26/6/2012 at 14:19
That would be sensible lost_soul, but how are they going to know without checking your connection speed every time?
I think you should be able to choose.
Bjossi on 27/6/2012 at 22:18
Is this maybe why Youtube some times decides to start loading a video from scatch even though I seek to a point that has already been loaded? It is not a huge problem but it is very wasteful for me and my limited monthly bandwidth.
