Shit youtube performance

**sAsLEX** · 18th August 2009, 21:08

Why is it my youtube sucks?

It never seems to fully download clips and is slow as a wet week!

Do other people have issues?

**YellowDog** · 18th August 2009, 21:14

I use Real Player 11 which lets me download the clips to my hard drive.

Your speed depends upon your connection speed. It also depends upon where the clip is being hosted and also how busy that server is.

Real Audio player is good and lets you keep and store your downloads.

**FJRider** · 18th August 2009, 21:14

Broadband is the answer ... that or more beer ....

More beer does not make it faster ... but after a few ... who cares how long it takes.

**sil3nt** · 18th August 2009, 21:26

Real Player? Are you kidding me? Worst piece of software ever written. Ever. Im surprised its not illegal to have it!

**sAsLEX** · 18th August 2009, 21:30

I have broadband, can download 700mb "text files" in under two hours, and generally 1.5Mbs ...... but youtube sucks! Have to let anything buffer for a long time and then a lot of the movies don't finish.

**Slicksta** · 18th August 2009, 21:32

Originally Posted by sAsLEX

I have broadband, can download 700mb "text files" in under two hours, and generally 1.5Mbs ...... but youtube sucks! Have to let anything buffer for a long time and then a lot of the movies don't finish.

Are you reading the bible in all known translations?

**hayd3n** · 18th August 2009, 21:37

**p.dath** · 18th August 2009, 21:37

Originally Posted by sAsLEX

I have broadband, can download 700mb "text files" in under two hours, and generally 1.5Mbs ...... but youtube sucks! Have to let anything buffer for a long time and then a lot of the movies don't finish.

Your issue is probably that you can't download at a consistent rate. Your probably finding the video keeps stalling. This is known as jitter.

I find You Tube works great for me most of the time.

**YellowDog** · 18th August 2009, 21:47

Originally Posted by sil3ntwar

Real Player? Are you kidding me? Worst piece of software ever written. Ever. Im surprised its not illegal to have it!

Real Player works for me.

What so you use to download web videos?

**Sam I Am** · 18th August 2009, 21:57

try using a different web browser.... http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html

**sAsLEX** · 18th August 2009, 22:04

Originally Posted by Sam I Am

try using a different web browser.... http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html

I use Firefox, just upgraded to 3.5.2 , noted that now with multiple tabs open the mouse wheel no longer sweeps the tabs left and right when hovering over them.... irritating!