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There's a lot of issues with the new player. Even if you've buffered the video ahead, when you try to skip to a buffered segment the video starts loading again.
by _frog 13y ago
There's a lot of issues with the new player. Even if you've buffered the video ahead, when you try to skip to a buffered segment the video starts loading again. On top of that I've had lots of issues where changing the video resolution just flat out doesn't work and greys out the option.
- JoshuaRedmond 13y agoThere seems to be quite a few issues with video resolution. I had one video suddenly switch from 1080p full-screen down to 144p[1] in full-screen... [1] - Apparently they added this quite recently http://www.ghacks.net/2013/04/06/youtube-introduces-ultra-low-bandwidth-144p-video-quality-mode/ http://www.ghacks.net/2013/04/06/youtube-introduces-ultra-lo...
- est 13y agoYeah that's annoying as hell. You know you have fucked up player when congestion control http requests spam more than video stream itself.
- skore 13y ago> Even if you've buffered the video ahead, when you try to skip to a buffered segment the video starts loading again. It makes no logical sense for the player to reload something that was already loaded since that would handily double their traffic (if only in this situation). Which makes me think they don't actually buffer anymore. The bar just shows a standard, imaginary amount of buffering by default and nobody really cares.
- nitid_name 13y ago>Which makes me think they don't actually buffer anymore. The bar just shows a standard, imaginary amount of buffering by default and nobody really cares. It makes me very uncomfortable how "true" that feels.