How is YouTube So Bad?
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Seriously, how can it be so bad at the one thing that it does? It can't give you obvious choices, it can't retain settings, it can't cache a video no matter how long it sits and sometimes what little cache it has just vanishes!! With a decade of doing this how is it possible they can't get the most basic features to work at all?!?!?
AAARRGGGHHH
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The caching is intentional, I read an article on it a while back. If I can find it I'll post it.
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This is what the implemented
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Adaptive_Streaming_over_HTTP
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@MattSpeller said:
The caching is intentional, I read an article on it a while back. If I can find it I'll post it.
That it intentionally dumps the cache and makes you rechache the same content over and over again making them spend a fortune in download capacity just because they like wasting everyone's money and clogging the Internet?
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@MattSpeller said:
This is what the implemented
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Adaptive_Streaming_over_HTTP
That doesn't seem to explain why they don't make it work,though.
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@MattSpeller said:
http://lifehacker.com/preload-entire-youtube-videos-by-disabling-dash-playbac-1186454034
Awesome, will check that out.
That doesn't explain why they constantly dump the cache completely and start over, though.
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@scottalanmiller said:
That doesn't seem to explain why they don't make it work,though.
It's not a bug it's a feature.
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The annoying thing is it wants to try to play flash videos sometimes even though I don't have it and use html5. Sometimes it will download the .flv file as it tries to play flash. Embeds or full screen links are the worst offenders for this. and then some videos don't even support html5 for some reason.
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@thecreativeone91 ah no way is that the worst offender. My vote goes to websites with auto-play video/audio. It's my instant hate trigger.
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@MattSpeller said:
@thecreativeone91 ah no way is that the worst offender. My vote goes to websites with auto-play video/audio. It's my instant hate trigger.
Okay. Yeah auto play sucks. I hate it.
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@MattSpeller said:
@scottalanmiller said:
That doesn't seem to explain why they don't make it work,though.
It's not a bug it's a feature.
With features like that, who needs bugs.
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LIterally , every time I let it cache a bit and hit play again so that it can go longer than two words without stopping..... Google erases everything cached and makes it start over.
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Tried that but YouTube Extensions don't work anymore.
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Perhaps your dropping packets like a laxative poop fest and the page keeps refreshing (or just parts of it)
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@nadnerB said:
Perhaps your dropping packets like a laxative poop fest and the page keeps refreshing (or just parts of it)
Why would Google make it do that? That's just more of a YouTube bug!!
