By Thilak ⋅ August 16, 2007

YouTube makes it easier to fast forward videos

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.

YouTube 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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Discussion

Comments for “YouTube makes it easier to fast forward videos”

  • Sheep
    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. :)
  • 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.
  • And they have new beta interface. I see a lot of popular sites doing this now. Paypal and StumbleUpon also change their interface.
  • This is really a very useful features they added.
  • 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.
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