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Re: Youtube Buffers. Hulu does not. What gives, Charter? This is done by Your tube to save some bandwidth.
Say you start a 30 min video, and after 5 min you think this is no good and change the page to something else.
If they did not buffer it you may have downloaded the whole video in the 5 minute and then started another on a new page. By buffering it they only sent what was need so far.
Times this by 1 million users and the amount of bandwidth saved is a lot. |
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| Thanks for your reply. They're buffering it too aggressively. I can understand stopping short of finishing the download. CNet does this well. Hulu does this well. But with YT, sometimes I wait 30 seconds for the next 15 seconds of streaming. It's damned annoying, and a poor user experience. I hope they can figure it out before they seriously lose viewership. |
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| Half the reason I very seldom even go to YouTube. |
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 DrDrewSo that others may surf.
join:2009-01-28
SoCal
kudos:8 | reply to greenman
said by greenman:I hope they can figure it out before they seriously lose viewership.
I've seen complaint of it for the last 3-4 years. It really started to get bad when they rolled out HD video streams
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If it's important, back it up... twice. Even 99.999% availability isn't enough sometimes. |
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