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The one thing that makes me scratch my head is that the page generally loads quickly, but videos load and play slowly. Rewinding a video to a point that I've a
by cout 4y ago
The one thing that makes me scratch my head is that the page generally loads quickly, but videos load and play slowly. Rewinding a video to a point that I've already played causes the spinner to show up for what feels like a eternity -- at that point I often just decide the video is not worth watching and try to find what I'm looking for elsewhere.
So a website that is supposed to be for playing videos has optimized the page loading pretty well, gotten the video player showing as quickly as possible, then after all that the experience of playing the video is depressing. Without knowing details, it feels like a case where the devs have optimized for the wrong things.
- mattmcknight 4y agoVideo playback is very fast for me. However, there used to be an issue where my ISP was giving lower priority for YouTube videos and I had to route around it. https://www.google.com/get/videoqualityreport/ https://www.google.com/get/videoqualityreport/
- zelphirkalt 4y agoStandard YouTube behavior: Whatever you do, except for one linear playback ... "I need to buffer that again!". One of the worst video player experiences. The default HTML5 player is better than that, and by a landslide. That's one of the reasons to use invidious instances.
- lukevp 4y agoSeeking anywhere in a video on YouTube is instantaneous for me. 1 gig symmetrical fiber in Portland, OR. You should look into network tools and see what’s causing the slowdown, because I doubt it’s on YouTube’s side.