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bibek22

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From: Nepal

Registered: 2015-09-10

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Exclusive Mozilla Users: how do you deal with Youtube buffering?

Ok, so this isn't an issue to all of you out their who have fast internet connection. But, it is to me.
When I'm playing a video on YouTube and say I wanna skip ahead few seconds, which btw is already buffered, the video freezes and buffers again. Same thing with rewinding a few sedconds ahead. Once the video is completely downloaded/buffered though, this doesn't happen.

So, is their a workaround for this. And FYI, google-chrome-stable doesn't have this issue. And this is the only thing that's preventing me from commiting to Firefox (I love everything else. I also have emacs keybinding loaded in it which I absolutely love.)

Thanks.

Raynman

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Registered: 2011-10-22

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Re: Exclusive Mozilla Users: how do you deal with Youtube buffering?

Which player are you using? I remember seeing this when I was using flash (flashplugin from the Arch repos), but (I think) it's gone now with the HTML5 player.

bibek22

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From: Nepal

Registered: 2015-09-10

Posts: 90

Re: Exclusive Mozilla Users: how do you deal with Youtube buffering?

I am not sure. I've not bothered to change what's default. But, I went to this page and chose to use HTML5 whenever possible. That doesn't change anything for me. Is there any other way?

dice

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Registered: 2014-02-10

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Re: Exclusive Mozilla Users: how do you deal with Youtube buffering?

When I am on a slow connection I usually download whole videos with https://www.archlinux.org/packages/comm … outube-dl/
It does not solve the issues with firefox but it makes life easier for me. Especially with 1080p/60fps videos

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bibek22

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From: Nepal

Registered: 2015-09-10

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Re: Exclusive Mozilla Users: how do you deal with Youtube buffering?

Right. I've also been using that youtube-dl for very long (It's by far the best utility I've known to download videos off YouTube). I especially love the playlist download feature. 

But, always downloading videos isn't any convenient. I'm still stuck with chrome even when I really don't want to.

PootisBird

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Registered: 2014-04-16

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Re: Exclusive Mozilla Users: how do you deal with Youtube buffering?

I'm using YouTube Center addon. It fixes buffering for me, it basically makes your yt very customizable.

mpan

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Re: Exclusive Mozilla Users: how do you deal with Youtube buffering?

bibek22:
Don't count on what is displayed as "buffered" by the player. I have never seen this thing to correspond to reality and on each seek all buffered data seems to be cleared anyway.

Periodically I have similar issues with playback — now with HTML5 player, but had them also when I was still using Flash.

As others have said, youtube-dl is a great alternative. Especially because it also works with multitude of other websites, allowing you to avoid running their software.

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Proinsias

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From: Glasgow

Registered: 2013-08-19

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Re: Exclusive Mozilla Users: how do you deal with Youtube buffering?

mpv is nice for streaming youtube, you can set cache options too.

*edit* the mpv-youtube-dl-binding addon makes streaming via mpv as easy as playing straight on youtube, and avoids ads.

Last edited by Proinsias (2015-11-07 17:05:24)

bibek22

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From: Nepal

Registered: 2015-09-10

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Re: Exclusive Mozilla Users: how do you deal with Youtube buffering?

bibek22:
Don't count on what is displayed as "buffered" by the player.

Except I'm used to counting on that coming from Chrome. What I've also noticed is that Chrome dynamically changes the video quality, which goes beyond 'auto' option on Quality (at least in my experience), depending on how much is buffered (equivalently how much is the effective download speed at the moment.) which doesn't seem to be as effective on Firefox.

For this reason, Chrome feels faster than Firefox. I have to admit integration of google services  into into chrome is unparalleled by any other browser.

I've a measly 256Kbps connection btw, which gives me a throughput of about 300 KBps for youtube (weird, i know).

Last edited by bibek22 (2015-11-08 03:23:53)