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I'm using a poor internet connection (because of geography) and my experience is that the usability of Youtube has gone down dramatically. They made a change a

I'm using a poor internet connection (because of geography) and my experience is that the usability of Youtube has gone down dramatically. They made a change a while back where the video will only buffer a few seconds beyond where you've paused it. Previously, you could go a few seconds into the video, pause it, and let it buffer 100% in whatever quality you needed, now I find myself having to constantly pause the video to let it load. One workaround I was forced to use is TaperMonkey Chrome addon with a script that adds a download link underneath the Youtube video in Chrome. I download the video and watch it offline in perfect quality.

lnanek2 13y ago
Ah, I was wondering why I kept leaving videos in tabs to buffer nowadays and they just never did it any more. Very sad day. ;/ Sucks for someone on a mobile connection 99% of the time like me.
- cma 13y ago
  They've announced offline viewing for android recently which should help
Semaphor 13y ago
YouTube Center [1] allows you to disable Dash [2]. I had the same problem and worse, before I could autoplay 720p video but with Dash that didn't work. [1] https://github.com/YePpHa/YouTubeCenter/wiki https://github.com/YePpHa/YouTubeCenter/wiki [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Adaptive_Streaming_over_HTTP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Adaptive_Streaming_over...
jlgreco 13y ago
The continuing problems with buffering on youtube have caused me to resort to youtube-dl/mplayer.
- tedunangst 13y ago
  Your comment about maps is dead, fyi. No idea why. I agree.
  - jlgreco 13y ago
    Huuuh, curious. Maybe comments that include the string 'goo[dot]gl' are auto-killed?
    - mkr-hn 13y ago
      The URL updates in the new version. It's always the permalink. Much easier than having to go through a bunch of clicks to get it.
      - jlgreco 13y ago
        Ah, good to know; thanks.
skj 13y ago
Unfortunately this is because ISPs throttle youtube traffic.

lnanek2 13y ago

Ah, I was wondering why I kept leaving videos in tabs to buffer nowadays and they just never did it any more. Very sad day. ;/ Sucks for someone on a mobile connection 99% of the time like me.

cma 13y ago
They've announced offline viewing for android recently which should help

Semaphor 13y ago

YouTube Center [1] allows you to disable Dash [2]. I had the same problem and worse, before I could autoplay 720p video but with Dash that didn't work. [1] https://github.com/YePpHa/YouTubeCenter/wiki https://github.com/YePpHa/YouTubeCenter/wiki [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Adaptive_Streaming_over_HTTP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Adaptive_Streaming_over...

jlgreco 13y ago

The continuing problems with buffering on youtube have caused me to resort to youtube-dl/mplayer.

tedunangst 13y ago
Your comment about maps is dead, fyi. No idea why. I agree.
- jlgreco 13y ago
  Huuuh, curious. Maybe comments that include the string 'goo[dot]gl' are auto-killed?
  - mkr-hn 13y ago
    The URL updates in the new version. It's always the permalink. Much easier than having to go through a bunch of clicks to get it.
    - jlgreco 13y ago
      Ah, good to know; thanks.

skj 13y ago

Unfortunately this is because ISPs throttle youtube traffic.