YouTube no longer buffers videos sufficiently in any resolution from 720p upwards. I like to watch them at 2x speed and the buffered segment can't keep up. Is this their latest attempt to push Premium after the recent awful earnings report Google had? I don't want to download every single video I watch just to prevent this. What do?
>>110297414> I like to watch them at 2x speedDownload the whole video and watch it with you media player.I do this with longer videos.
>>110297468It's too much of a hassle for some videos. I watch several indie game channels daily and I like to skip around through the videos, there's no point in watching the full video front to back to understand if a game is interesting to me or not. Still, if things keep up this way I might just bulk download the videos. There's an extension called FastStream that's supposed to fix this, but it's currently not available on the Firefox store, only Chromium and manually installing it on ESR/Developer Edition is a chore in itself (plus that some people said that it doesn't work when used this way). I might just switch to Chromium for YouTube since Google sabotages Firefox's page loading speed anyway. Sorry for ranting.
not surprised desu, ever since AI they must get like a million terabytes of slop uploaded daily and i'd be surprised if they can keep offering free playback forevermark my words but soon enough they will start limiting uploads and soon you'll have to have some premium account for publishing more than a few YT videos
>>110297596I suspect you to have a Google account that you login with to watch Jewtube.I don't and I won't ever get one.
>>110297596if you just open the link with mpv you can move around, the buffer will be defined by mpv's config.
>>110297414how ancient is your hardware? av1 has been the standard for a decade, get with the times unc
>>110297638I'm not sure what you're getting at, it was working perfectly fine until a few days ago.
>>110297633Thanks, I'll give it a try.
>>110297414What's up with people wanting to speed up videos?I don't understand it. It doesn't make sense.I do have ADHD, but I also have the absolute super power to just sit there and watch videos on normal speed without grabbing my fone even.Yes, I also do that for 3 hour long podcasts, because otherwise I can't follow the plot, if I do something else
>>110298169Some retards talk too slow or babble too much
>>110297468same
>>110297414>>110297468mpv ytdlp
>>110297468this is just a bitch way to work around it, its 2026, we could buffer videos in the god damn 1990s you fucking faggotsthe crazy part is anyone with a code clanker sub could make a plugin for any browser that simply increases the buffer>>110297414the problem is also their rendering has been busted for a few years now. I started double dipping chrome and firefox because some videos, not even sped up, will drop frames and shit the bed in oene browser and not the other. also, youtube is just heavier and using shitty decoding techniques. my 2015 macbook pro has progressively become unable to watch 1440p youtube videos, but my cellphone can do 1440p and 2x speed just fine. So Im pretty sure there some device/platform warfare bullshit going on
>>110298169Some people make sure their work is aimed at people who're too fucking slow. I don't watch that shit by myself, but when I'm forced to watch anime with friends I perfectly understand why would you want to speed up, these people don't know what pacing is. Probably is even worse in normalfag youtube content.
in 2005 the bandwidth was so fucking terrible you couldn't even watch a 5 minute video within a duration of 5 minutes, it was more like 15, giving up part of the way because the AV quality and entire presentation was dogshit and you realized the uploader was a retard anyway.
