Post by thread:[OT] Youtube speed

What determines how well (fast) a Youtube presentation is sent to you? I am watching a tutorial series from Stanford University in California and I am in Upstate New York. My broadband service is provided via Time Warner Cable's Roadrunner service. The lectures are very disjointed and stop and go all the time. A 45 minute lecture might take twice that time to watch. Speed tests using online testing show the download times from west coast servers are around 450kBps. Is there anything I can do to get better throughput so watching these lectures is more enjoyable? Any enlightenment will be appreciated. Vic -- *____________________________________________________________________________________________* *Victor Fraenckel KC2GUI windswaytoo ATSIGN gmail DOT com** *

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 9:43 PM, Vic Fraenckel <spam_OUTwindswaytooTakeThisOuTgmail.com> wrote: > What determines how well (fast) a Youtube presentation is sent to you? I > am watching a tutorial series from Stanford University in California and > I am in Upstate New York. My broadband service is provided via Time > Warner Cable's Roadrunner service. The lectures are very disjointed and > stop and go all the time. A 45 minute lecture might take twice that time > to watch. Speed tests using online testing show the download times from > west coast servers are around 450kBps. > > Is there anything I can do to get better throughput so watching these > lectures is more enjoyable? > > Any enlightenment will be appreciated. > I have dismal connection to Youtube and Gmail as well. I am in Singapore. It seems to me that Google is having some problems to have sufficient servers to support the user base. I have 8Mbps cable broadband and the speed test confirms that I have good speed even in peak times, but not for Google. Microsoft sites are very fast. On the other hand, the ISP may play a big part in it. Apparently my ISP (Starhub Cable Online) is throttling some types of download in the peak hours. Xiaofan

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:00 PM, Xiaofan Chen <.....xiaofancKILLspam@spam@gmail.com> wrote: >> Speed tests using online testing show the download times from >> west coast servers are around 450kBps. Which testing site are you using? I just did a test with Speedtest.net and this is my result in the peak time (Saturday evening 10pm Singapore local time, 8Mbps Starhub Cable). http://www.speedtest.net/result/356429322.png 4356Kbps download, 644kbps upload Server Singapore, Ping 22ms. Still Youtube is not fast at all. For example, the first video here is not continuous at all. http://www.youtube.com/user/myPIC32 And take note I have updated my Linksys WRT54G router to use 3rd party Potato firmware and I am under Linux (ubuntu 8.10). Xiaofan

where does one get such downloads? ----- Original Message ----- From: "apptech" <apptechKILLspamparadise.net.nz> To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <.....piclistKILLspam.....mit.edu> Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 9:29 AM Subject: Re: [OT] Youtube speed > You can get downloaders which allow you to download and store UTube on > your > PC for subsequent viewing. > >> Is there anything I can do to get better throughput so watching these >> lectures is more enjoyable? > > > Russell > > --

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:29 PM, apptech <EraseMEapptechspam_OUTTakeThisOuTparadise.net.nz> wrote: > You can get downloaders which allow you to download and store UTube on your > PC for subsequent viewing. > Good idea. Just tried youtube-dl for Ubuntu Linux and it seems to work fine. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=667081 Xiaofan

I highly recommend "Miro" which comes in Mac OS X, Winders, and Ubuntu flavors. Miro lets you search YouTube from its interface and download to its own local library. It also plays a number of video formats not immediately supported by QT, WMP, etc. You can find it at ... <http://participatoryculture.org/> cheers ... BBR On Nov 15, 2008, at 9:48 AM, Rich wrote: > where does one get such downloads? > > {Original Message removed}

On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 08:43 -0500, Vic Fraenckel wrote: > What determines how well (fast) a Youtube presentation is sent to you? I > am watching a tutorial series from Stanford University in California and > I am in Upstate New York. My broadband service is provided via Time > Warner Cable's Roadrunner service. The lectures are very disjointed and > stop and go all the time. A 45 minute lecture might take twice that time > to watch. Speed tests using online testing show the download times from > west coast servers are around 450kBps. > > Is there anything I can do to get better throughput so watching these > lectures is more enjoyable? > > Any enlightenment will be appreciated. Download the videos instead. There are multiple plugins available for firefox that allows you to download videos from pretty much "online video" site (I use download helper). You still have to wait for them to download, but once on your hard drive they won't stutter anymore! :) If you're using Linux the built in video players support the .flv format natively. Under windows I'm user there's an .flv player you can find and download. TTYL

Another trick, beside downloading them, is to hit play, wait for it to start, then hit pause and wait for the bottom bar to fill up completely. -Adam On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Vic Fraenckel <@spam@windswaytooKILLspamgmail.com> wrote: {Quote hidden}> What determines how well (fast) a Youtube presentation is sent to you? I > am watching a tutorial series from Stanford University in California and > I am in Upstate New York. My broadband service is provided via Time > Warner Cable's Roadrunner service. The lectures are very disjointed and > stop and go all the time. A 45 minute lecture might take twice that time > to watch. Speed tests using online testing show the download times from > west coast servers are around 450kBps. > > Is there anything I can do to get better throughput so watching these > lectures is more enjoyable? > > Any enlightenment will be appreciated. > > Vic > -- > > *____________________________________________________________________________________________* > > *Victor Fraenckel > KC2GUI > windswaytoo ATSIGN gmail DOT com** > > * > > -

Vic Fraenckel wrote: > What determines how well (fast) a Youtube presentation is sent to you? I > am watching a tutorial series from Stanford University in California and > I am in Upstate New York. My broadband service is provided via Time > Warner Cable's Roadrunner service. The lectures are very disjointed and > stop and go all the time. A 45 minute lecture might take twice that time > to watch. Speed tests using online testing show the download times from > west coast servers are around 450kBps. > > Is there anything I can do to get better throughput so watching these > lectures is more enjoyable? > > Any enlightenment will be appreciated. > > Vic > Watch the "quality" setting, often youtube will have the video available in a lower quality mode rather than the "HD" that you generally see now. (I cant rember what to click to change that though sorry lol)