Sent to you by Shine Kochath via Google Reader:
Are you looking for a way to make YouTube videos load up faster on your computer? This could be a problem if you have a slow Internet connection, which can cause videos to "freeze". This is caused by the fact that the video is being downloaded into the buffer.
There are a couple of ways you can ensure that videos from YouTube are loading faster and steaming with fewer interruptions, so read on to find out what.
Method 1: Add stop button to YouTube video player. By default, if you press the Pause button on a video in YouTube, the red bar will continue moving, meaning that the video is being buffered. This is fine for fast connections, but will cause the freeze issue on slow connections.
Using a Firefox script, you can add a Stop button to a video which will prevent it from buffering the video. In this way, you can have multiple videos open and watch one while the rest are stopped.
You need to install Greasemonkey and then install the stop script. You should see a button above the video now:
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Note that this script is useful when you have multiple videos open in different browser windows. If you are just watching one video, pausing is better because you can let it buffer a good amount of the video before pressing play.
Method 2: Download and install the SpeedBit Video Accelerator software. The cool thing about this program is that when you watching a video on YouTube, it will open up multiple connections to the video on the servers and download different parts of the video at the same time.
So instead of just starting the download from the beginning and moving towards the end, SpeedBit will download the video like your BitTorrent client downloads torrents, different sections all at once.
It will significantly reduce the video freeze and buffering issues with YouTube and will also accelerate YouTube videos that are embedded in other sites like MySpace, blogs, etc.
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Method 3: Another way to load YouTube videos faster is to use the Fast Forward feature. Just click anywhere on the player bar and the video will load from that position.
Pretty simple trick, but I didn't know this for the longest time! Definitely helps when you have a longer video and only want to see a latter part of it.
Method 4: Download the video to your computer. If none of these are working and you are still having issues, then it might be better to just download the video to your computer!
There are a million ways to download YouTube videos to your computer, but I'll only mention one and that is Vixy.net because it lets you download and convert to another format such as AVI, MOV, MP4, MP3, or 3GP.
That's it! There's really nothing else you can do to load YouTube videos faster other than getting a faster Internet connection! Enjoy!
Shine Kochath
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