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Jono
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21 Mar 2012, 8:32 am

I usually often use this quality when watching videos on youtube because otherwise it takes too long to load. I could still do this this morning but now not a single video on youtube has this option. Even the ones where I could choose this before and every single video on youtube now has that speed button at the bottom and they didn't have it before. What's going on?



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21 Mar 2012, 8:52 am

YouTube seem to be going out of their way to become unusable for anyone with a low speed connection. I gave up on YouTube long ago and now block any content from their site - they just cripple my connection.


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21 Mar 2012, 8:57 am

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21 Mar 2012, 9:19 am

nat4200 wrote:
You mean "240p" right? (I've never seen a "250p" option)

I presume the speed button means you are using the HTML5 "trial" option? I've watch Youtube clips today that had a 240p option with the default Youtube Flash (FLV codec) video player (I'm not opted into the HTML5 trial at the moment).

P.S. Just checked back to Wikipedia's handy table of Youtube audio/video encoding settings and it says that they don't encode 240p video for the WebM codec (this is the codec used under most browsers when using the HTML5 player)
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube#Quality_and_codecs

Also note: you can opt-in/out of the Youtube HTML trial from here: http://www.youtube.com/html5


Yes, I meant 240p. It does seem like that HTML trial was the problem. I didn't even know that I was using it but opting out of the trial on that link does seem to have solved the problem. Thanks.



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21 Mar 2012, 10:01 am

What happen to the old videos that are only on 240p then?


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21 Mar 2012, 10:13 am

Tollorin wrote:
What happen to the old videos that are only on 240p then?


They're still there. I'm guessing that you can't watch using the HTML trial option though, you have to use Youtube's default FVL codec.



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21 Mar 2012, 12:32 pm

nah they are simply re encoded, easy.


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