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Re: Problems streaming You Tube
21-07-2009 3:32 PM
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Re: Problems streaming You Tube
21-07-2009 4:31 PM
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Quote from: Bob I think the limits are normally in place for a few hours each evening when we're at our absolute busiest. It shouldn't matter to be honest as the buffering should always be ahead of the streaming. What concerns me at the moment is that it looks like this might not be the case...
As far as I am concerned, I sometimes stream a few YouTube songs to unwind between 11pm and midnight, which I would not expect to be your absolute busiest time... Correct me if I'm wrong!
I have not yet managed to watch this video properly, even though I tried many times:
. It starts ok and then becomes unwatchable. I assumed it was because the picture quality is pretty good even though I don't think it qualifies as HD (even so, I would expect to be able to watch a good quality stream even in the evenings). However, I have since had problems with lower quality videos too. Not always though, to be fair. Not sure how YouTube streams in the mornings as I never use it then.
I am currently on Unlimited. Going back to BBYW3 in a couple of days, but that won't change anything.
Thanks for looking into this!
Edit: Can't watch it right now at 4.43pm.
Re: Problems streaming You Tube
21-07-2009 5:08 PM
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Re: Problems streaming You Tube
21-07-2009 5:10 PM
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Re: Problems streaming You Tube
21-07-2009 5:21 PM
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Re: Problems streaming You Tube
21-07-2009 5:24 PM
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It really bugs me that you people can watch it and not me! I've been trying for several weeks!
Re: Problems streaming You Tube
21-07-2009 5:25 PM
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Re: Problems streaming You Tube
21-07-2009 5:27 PM
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Edit 5.30pm: Actually seems to be working here at the moment (buffering bar very slightly ahead). However, this is not a good time for me as I've got to go and cook dinner. I need to be able to watch that kind of stuff when my kids are in bed and everything is sorted out, i.e. late evening.
Re: Problems streaming You Tube
21-07-2009 5:28 PM
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Re: Problems streaming You Tube
21-07-2009 5:33 PM
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Re: Problems streaming You Tube
21-07-2009 5:40 PM
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After dinner you could go round to Oldjim's and watch it there, he is in Dorset
Re: Problems streaming You Tube
21-07-2009 5:41 PM
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Re: Problems streaming You Tube
21-07-2009 6:20 PM
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Quote from: Santiago @BlueRhizone
After dinner you could go round to Oldjim's and watch it there, he is in Dorset
LOL! Well I'm actually going to a gym, but it's not an old one!
Re: Problems streaming You Tube
21-07-2009 7:32 PM
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Just a tip I'll offer, If you want to download the HQ version of a movie (when available). Simply append your youtube link with &fmt=18 - so in this case the link will read:
If you then paste such a link into your youtube downloading software, you'll be downloading the HQ (.MP4) version. I've just downloaded this Leonard Cohen clip and FYI, I can tell you that the standard (.FLV) footage is 94.3 MB, whilst the HQ (.MP4) footage is 154.4MB. As a consequence of the download (with Videoget) my IE8 cache now also contains an MP4 file, although my Videoget download is titled "Leonard Cohen on Q TV (CBC exclusive).flv" (in spite of it being an identical copy of the MP4 file in my cache). But this doesn't introduce any problems with playback (in either MediaPlayer Classic or VideoLAN).
Incidentally - if you've watched the streaming footage (however choppy) from the link you supplied - you might already have a (FLV) copy of the footage present in your Temporary Internet Files - probably with a generic name something like "video[1].flv". Just do a search of your cache for *.FLV and you should locate the movie if it's in there. (don't know for certain about this - but if no such file is found - then it's possible that you may need to increase the disk space made available for TIF files. IE8 allows for a maximum of 1024MB).
Edited the word "generic" - freudian slip earlier
Re: Problems streaming You Tube
21-07-2009 11:07 PM
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Thanks! Will give it a try now!
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