Buffering and other issues
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philochs
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First of all, this is so cool. Here are some nagging thoughts I still have though. I wish this script played the video from the image, just by scrolling over it. instead it pops up a green box to the side and plays with added information. I understand that maybe you can't make the youtube video preview image actually be the preview box, cutting out the green middle man. If you excluded the extra video information though, would that help buffer time? As it works now, no matter how I set it, I still get buffer times between 2 to 6 seconds or so. Another idea, couldn't you make it so that it only shows a set 30 second preview, depending on whenever I set it to start. Say, for instance, if I set it to preview clips starting from the very beginning, it plays the clip, but cuts off after 30 seconds thus showing only as small a sample as one needs. as it is now, it plays the entire video if you let it. That must be naturally causing unnecessary longer buffering. I think it would preview instantly, or much faster then. Also, on channels, sometimes it will bug out and still play the audio after I'm done previewing, Waiving over whichever clip again seems to fix that. Most videos do show a preview, but a few won't show anything but a black screen, and that's after they buffer. Maybe 5 percent of the videos I've tried won't preview. |
Michael Z
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The Idea behind the script was that you have a tooltip that displays you some video data, not just the real video. Making the Images play a video is possible, but it a lot more dificult since you have to add a new YoutubePlayer every time the user moves ythe mouse over a video, (or check if there is already one), and you have to tell all these players when to start/stop playing. It’s much more easyer wih one player. The buffer times are from youtube. I could speed them up with reloading the video, but it would increase yout network traffic a lot. The buffering does not depend on the length of the part of the Video the player plays. If you want to restrict the length you can just use the stop-Method of the youtube API, it does not offer an other possibility. The problem with the audio is known, but I wasn’t able to fix that. If you tell Youtube to stop playing a video while it is still buffering, it does not react. It is one of the bugs on top of the Todo-List. EDIT: J just saw that there was realy a problem when putting a response from youtube to the right place, so that the response was not found afterwards. Should be fixed with next version ;-) |
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philochs
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If reloading the videos would speed up the buffer then by golly please do it Sir, I need more power! Please make another script for people with fast connections. I have over 20 mbs and bywifi accelerator running off a ramdisk. HD youtube videos load fully in like 25 seconds! I have network traffic to spare I think. My whole point was really asking if buffer time could be reduced in any possible way. Please keep tinkering with it. I think I would prefer an option to not show the text or border. That way I could have it a little less cluttered feeling. I guess the text doesn't effect buffering time. You say it is possible to play the video right from the preview image, very interesting. I've always thought Youtube should have that feature built in. empflix (adult site xxx) This website uses that feature! Do not go there unless you want to see naked woman though, because empflix is an adult site that mimics youtube. Anywhoo if you did check out how empflix does it, there is no sound, and the clip only plays a sample. It buffers much faster than youtube though. It's an awesome feature, which youtube should steal! I don't doubt that the buffering is all youtube, and none your doing, but if you could do any tricks or mods to speed up buffering time, please let me know if you release it, that would rock. I'll be keeping this installed because it's awesome! It's legendary! If empflix can let me sample a clip with 1-2 second consistent buffering time, then youtube should be able to match that! Why'd they get rid of my awesome old channel for beta? More bandwidth? Can't they fit this fling flangin' feature in too. Those jerks at google are messin' with me. You're great though, thanks for your killer information and script! |
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Michael Z
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I can make the pre-buffering an option in the settings. I don’t know how the youtube player will react whenn cuing a video while the playewr is invisible, bit I think it should be possible. Accessing the flash API via GM is a littlee bit tricky, so I don’t know when I’ll find a way to do this. I think the speed problems are because I use the external API that is used to embedd a Video on Non-Youtube sites. And I think that youtube hadles these players with less priority... The next thing that is comming is pausing the big video on video pages wehn the rooltip appears, the code is almoast working. I’ll have to test it a bit more (and add a Setting to deactivate it), but I think I can release it by the middle of the week. |
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Michael Z
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OK, with the update tomorrow it should be loading faster, and the loading process should be more stable. |
