Thursday, August 16, 2007

New! Watch YouTube Videos in Fast Forward Mode, Buffer Anywhere

Watching videos on YouTube gets even more fun as you don't have to wait for the whole video to load.

Google has silently added a "no buffer" feature in YouTube Video Player  - just click anywhere in the red player bar and the video will start to buffer from that position, not from the beginning.

A similar feature already exists in Google Video Player but they even let you bookmark the time / position in the URL itself.

youtube video buffer streaming 
In this screenshot of YouTube Video player, no video was downloaded between 0:00 and 1:33.

For instance, the Cliff Richard video above is 2minutes and 44 seconds long. Earlier, if you had to listen to this music video from position 1:33, YouTube would still download the entire clip from the beginning (position 0:00).

But in the new version, you can move the YouTube video playhead to any location in the red timeline and the video will begin to stream from that position itself - you no longer have to wait for the entire video clip to load. Thanks Nirav.

Related: Rip Audio from YouTube Music Videos

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