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Wish I could watch it. Am I the only one who can't stream a full video from YouTube half the time? Either it doesn't start at all, or quits streaming half way

by walkon 16y ago

Wish I could watch it. Am I the only one who can't stream a full video from YouTube half the time? Either it doesn't start at all, or quits streaming half way through.

jessriedel 16y ago
This is at least half of my youtube experience.
barrkel 16y ago
I get a lot of stuttering due to Youtube throttling bandwidth usage at the server end. Videos start great, but after that initial buffer is done with, it often inches forward too slowly to keep up with the playback rate. When this happens, and I really want to watch the video, I use FlashGot in Firefox to download the FLV directly and play it back in Media Player Classic.
- mdaniel 16y ago
  This may not help your particular situation, but I'd urge you to try VLC (http://videolan.org/ http://videolan.org/) since it has awesome support for playing YouTube videos. It requires that you paste the YouTube URL into its "Open Network Stream" dialog, but is otherwise painless. Almost anything has to be better than using Media Player Classic.
  - barrkel 16y ago
    VLC's user interface sucks, which is why I use MPC. Anything to avoid WMP. In particular, adjusting zoom, aspect ratio, clipping area etc. with MPC, with the numeric keypad, is completely trivial, but a major pain in the neck with VLC. (E.g. how do you zoom to 102%? To 94%? How do you crop the top 8 pixels, because there's fuzz from overscan there?) And keyboard shortcuts! Alt-Enter is nice and simple to use with MPC. With VLC, F11 goes full screen but still leaves control gunk visible; Ctrl+H removes the gunk, but - believe it or not - also disables F11! In full screen (F11) and controls hidden with Ctrl+H, it's surprisingly awkward to get back out again. Yes, you can use the "other" full screen by double-clicking with the mouse, but at that point it's clear that it's already lost.
  - bricestacey 16y ago
    MPC works wonderfully though. I hope you're not confusing it with Microsofts version.
slug 16y ago
You could always use an add-on to download the video files. I'm a fan of Video DownloadHelper - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006/ for firefox. It usually works for any website that embeds media into flash.

by walkon 16y ago

Wish I could watch it. Am I the only one who can't stream a full video from YouTube half the time? Either it doesn't start at all, or quits streaming half way through.

jessriedel 16y ago

This is at least half of my youtube experience.

barrkel 16y ago

I get a lot of stuttering due to Youtube throttling bandwidth usage at the server end. Videos start great, but after that initial buffer is done with, it often inches forward too slowly to keep up with the playback rate. When this happens, and I really want to watch the video, I use FlashGot in Firefox to download the FLV directly and play it back in Media Player Classic.

mdaniel 16y ago
This may not help your particular situation, but I'd urge you to try VLC (http://videolan.org/ http://videolan.org/) since it has awesome support for playing YouTube videos. It requires that you paste the YouTube URL into its "Open Network Stream" dialog, but is otherwise painless. Almost anything has to be better than using Media Player Classic.
- barrkel 16y ago
  VLC's user interface sucks, which is why I use MPC. Anything to avoid WMP. In particular, adjusting zoom, aspect ratio, clipping area etc. with MPC, with the numeric keypad, is completely trivial, but a major pain in the neck with VLC. (E.g. how do you zoom to 102%? To 94%? How do you crop the top 8 pixels, because there's fuzz from overscan there?) And keyboard shortcuts! Alt-Enter is nice and simple to use with MPC. With VLC, F11 goes full screen but still leaves control gunk visible; Ctrl+H removes the gunk, but - believe it or not - also disables F11! In full screen (F11) and controls hidden with Ctrl+H, it's surprisingly awkward to get back out again. Yes, you can use the "other" full screen by double-clicking with the mouse, but at that point it's clear that it's already lost.
- bricestacey 16y ago
  MPC works wonderfully though. I hope you're not confusing it with Microsofts version.

slug 16y ago

You could always use an add-on to download the video files. I'm a fan of Video DownloadHelper - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006/ for firefox. It usually works for any website that embeds media into flash.