I hate YouTube!

Topher · Post by **Topher** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 2:02 am

Why do I hate the most popular video service on the Intarweb?

One reason:
I can't fast forward to an unloaded section of video.

It is so frustrating. Instead of fast forwarding, it pauses the video. And it doesn't just pause, it kills the video. The play/pause button does nothing unless you reset the scroller to somewhere else in the \"red loaded zone\" or refresh the page.

Google video does this right. Soapbox does this right. Why not YouTube?

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fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 2:32 am

google know owns youtube.

I wouldn't be surprised if this issue get addressed.

unless youtube's servers don't support resume.

Topher · Post by **Topher** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 2:35 am

Yup, it's very likely their client doesn't stream the video but instead just downloads it.

Isaac · Post by **Isaac** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 4:13 am

someone should write a script that uploads youtube videos to google video.

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 10:25 am

That is no big issue if your connection is fast enough, my DSL is just fast enough when nothing else is going on to stream a video from youtube right from the start. But if I am even looking at a download, it requires 3-5 minutes to load a 1 minute video on youtube. I hate almost all internet viral videos and video sites because it always takes 5-10 minutes to view a video that I typically find was not worth the wait.

And my ISP dares to call this \"high speed\".

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 11:08 am

yeah i hate this too, alot of videos have boring and lame introductions, i wanna see the good parts.

youtube uses flash dont they?

Flabby Chick · Post by **Flabby Chick** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 11:43 am

Funny....i'm way far from you all and utube is fast as .....well something really fast.

The Lion · Post by **The Lion** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 12:04 pm

I use http://www.videodl.org/ to download the videos from youtube or google
and then I just use MPlayer to watch them. I can't skip forward or go back as I
can with most video types, which is kind of annoying, but I can speed it up or
slow it down as usual, as this is just an independant feature of mplayer and
isn't made more difficult by any codec.

Kyouryuu · Post by **Kyouryuu** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 2:14 pm

I always thought Google Video was a joke. Nine times out of ten, it would just inexplicably stall midstream with no hope of continuing. Never had that problem on YouTube.

Also, I don't know if Google Video supports them yet, but I like reading comments on videos sometimes.

Bakdraft · Post by **Bakdraft** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 2:51 pm

There's always GBS-TV, which makes for some very, very interesting background noise. Right now we're running a Bill Nye marathon, and there's always all kinds of crazy stuff being played. You can even queue and upload anything, within reasonable bounds. It's not everyone's cup of tea, but you can't argue with MST3k.

http://www.gbs.tv