YouTube has added “no buffer” feature into its video player. You can now move the time slider to any position and the video will buffer from that position, instead of buffering from the beginning. It can be a real time saver, if you want to fast forward videos.
For instance, you just want to watch the last few minutes of Linus Torvalds on git on YouTube. You could fast forward the slider and watch the video, without having to wait for the entire video to buffer. With the previous version of YouTube player, you had to wait until the entire video buffers to fast forward.
I was enjoying the same feature on Google Video since a long time. I really wonder why Google took such long to implement this useful feature.
[via: DI]
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wrote, on August 16th, 2007
Ah thank god for that, great update. Thanks for the news. I used to hate it, even when the video was fully buffered, if you moved the slider to a point in the video it would only skip and play from certain parts.
wrote, on August 17th, 2007
This was a highly needed feature. It was quite frustrating to wait for entire videos to buffer before you could watch it at a go. And this took particularly long over slow connections.
wrote, on August 17th, 2007
Last paragraph quote: “[...] on Google Video since a long time. I really wonder why Google took [...]”
That last “Google” should probably be “YouTube”
wrote, on August 17th, 2007
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wrote, on August 17th, 2007
Sheep: Actually YouTube is owned by Google, so I guess it’s Google who has to authorize new improvements to YouTube. Let me know if I’m wrong.
wrote, on August 17th, 2007
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wrote, on August 18th, 2007
This is really a very useful features they added.
wrote, on August 18th, 2007
And they have new beta interface. I see a lot of popular sites doing this now. Paypal and StumbleUpon also change their interface.
wrote, on August 19th, 2007
I’ve always found it really annoying to fast forward on YouTube, but I think that overall it’s good so that you can’t skip commercials that are meant to be in the video as easily. Oh well, it’s a win for the viewers.
wrote, on August 27th, 2007
Thilak, I’m sure you’re right. Because of the Google Video obviously being Google, I didn’t realize YouTube is as well.
I should’ve mentally added a bit to the last sentence: “…implement this useful feature on their other video site.”, or something like that.