People keep sending me links to videos, but the videos keep stopping and starting so they're hard to watch. Do I need to download something to make them run better?
2006-10-14 09:48:22 · 5 answers · asked by The Gadfly 5 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
There are millions of people on the site constantly, ofcourse it is going to lag a little.
2006-10-14 09:55:38 · answer #1 · answered by San Jose 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can let the video run to the end, don't watch it, leave the sound off, then turn sound on and hit play again. It will probably play just fine then. When I was on DSL lite speed, I had to do that sometimes, but with regular DSL, I haven't had that problem, yet. But, no matter what speed you have, you will only realize the speed of the slowest connection between you and the source, so if you hit on a really busy time, or a really busy file, you will suffer the slow-downs.
2006-10-14 10:19:25 · answer #2 · answered by Fred C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's 2 contributing factors for this.
1) Lag... The YouTube servers try to accomidate everybody the best they can, but when the server gets bogged down... it everybody gets slowed down.
2) Buffer problems. YouTube tries its best to stream the videos to you, but lag (as stated above) can cause you to go through the buffer.
The best thing I can suggest is wait for the video to be full downloaded before playing. Just watch the dark red bar (that's before your "current position" button) & wait until it's all the way to the other side before playing. That way, you won't have to wait for the server to download the rest of the video while you're viewing.
2006-10-14 10:00:25 · answer #3 · answered by TStodden 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you are on teh internet watching videos, sometimes it has played more than it loads. this causes the buffer to run, stopping the video until more of it is streamed. if you want to watch the whole video without any of the start and stops, then try downloading it onto your computer and tehn watching it. this way, it doesn't have to load anything.
2006-10-14 09:57:06 · answer #4 · answered by §@mM¥ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you might have a slow connection. if your using a dial up connection that might make it slow or if you need more ram for you computer or your cache might be full. their are a number things that could cause that.
2006-10-14 10:01:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋