Why YouTube's HTML5 Player Sucks

Re:Why YouTube's HTML5 Player Sucks by xpose2000 on Wednesday February 08, 2012 @01:23AM (#3565412)

Interesting take. I've always experienced caching issues of the video buffer not buffering correctly. This has happened ever since they introduced 1080 content. I generally only go to 720p if I ever want to actually finishing watching the video.

It could be that their servers just cant keep up with the 1080p feed. It would need a thorough investigation to get to the bottom of it.

However, there is one great feature with their new player.

I have 3 monitors and when I fullscreen a video on one monitor, I can continue watching it and click away and work on another monitor and it is still maximized.

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Re:Why YouTube's HTML5 Player Sucks by ChrisMorrisCo on Wednesday February 08, 2012 @01:41AM (#3565478)

So you've had that caching issue with Flash as well? I'm wondering if it's YouTube setting a limit to how much video can be downloaded in the case that the user clicks off the video early, thus saving bandwidth. If it is, then I simply won't be able to use YouTube HD anymore.

That's really good, re: multiple monitors. That's one thing that really bugged me about Flash.

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