Slowdown You Tube videos longer than 4/5mins.

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errol43

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Has anyone noticed that YouTube videos stop after 4mins or so and then you have to wait for them to catch up again? I noticed this when I watched the latest Max Keiser one last night.

Computer still operating at the same speed.

Maybe an overload by traffic on YouTube?

Anyone having the same experience?

Regards Errol 43
 
That's normal, if I'm interested in a video thats over 10 minutes I always download it first so I don't have to worry about buffering.
 
Yes I have too and it's not a HD problem with me. Even my kids are experiencing problems on xBox live lately which is strange isn't it :/

I must sound like a conspiracy theorist here on SS but I'm really hoping it's nothing to do with this NBN installation ie:- trying to push the masses into using this over the copper? and it's just some glich that is happening out of the blue.... the mind wonders :|

Could be your flash player too
 
I'm using telstra mobile internet. and I'm not experiencing this. and my internet is usually pretty crap.
 
I cannot remember where I read this, but it was in the past couple of months.

What Youtube (Google) found in many cases was that longer videos were being watched for only a few minutes in many cases, and then stopped/abandoned.

In order to counteract the downloading of large amounts of data that effectively was going unused (unwatched), they made changes to their streaming to allow for smaller "chunks" of a video to be delivered closer to the time it was potentially going to be needed.

I too have noticed the change people are referring to, and assumed that with inherent distance/lag/load, was causing the pausing for more data.
 
Midnight man I think is spot on..My son told me the same thing after I was talking to him of the YouTube problem.

Thanks to all SS members who answered my post.

Regards Errol 43
 
301 viewers is a test point. to see if all the views are real. ie different IPs and locations.. this is for YouTube and Google ad payments. if the video hasn't been monetised this usually doesn't happen.
 
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