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So you would like to watch that 30min 4K video on slow 2G, which then will (probably) download for 3000 hours before you can watch... Or you will just get a lo

• aembleton 6y ago
  Does Youtube work over 2G?
  • chrisandchris 6y ago
    Work... Yes, you can watch a video fluently, but it takes (on Desktop, Firefox, with Throttling on "Good 2G") maybe ~2min to load the video page. However, you can start watching the video before the full page is even loaded.
• Santosh83 6y ago
  It is by no means a clean or modern solution (I agree, go with Youtube etc or provide a transcoding js player), but about a couple decades ago many sites would simply link to several resolutions of a video, allowing the user to play either a low, medium or high res version as per their current data connection. So that is one option that sidesteps adaptive bitrate players as well as a large CDN.
• emilfihlman 6y ago
  So you'd much rather watch absolute shit for 30minutes? Yeah that's a hard no.
  • chrisandchris 6y ago
    I agree with you - partly. It's either "watch nothing" or "watch not in 4K". Not everybody in this world has such a good internet connection. There are still enough people that would be happy to even have internet...
• ogre_codes 6y ago
  As has been pointed out above, having some kinds of video downrated to be streamable on 2G isn't much different from not having the content at all. While 4K is rarely required, pushing out coding tutorials at any resolution below 1080p is nearly worthless, and pushing it out at 480p is worthless (Unless it's a retro C64 BASIC tutorial in which case rock on).