How to Make YouTube Run Faster - Feather

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If you suffer from such "buffering" problems when you're watching YouTube, check out a beta feature on the site called Feather. It replaces the standard web page with a cut-down one that includes the video, a reduced navigation option, only a handful of comments, and not much else. Except the adverts, of course. Those who use Feather have reported online that the amount of buffering and catching up required has diminished considerably.
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Anyone else used it?
 
I gave up trying to stream from youtube, sometimes it's okay but for the best part it is dire. 1080p is just a no go for me. It's strange, it's not a bandwidth problem and trying different browsers never seems to help.

I use jDownloader now which has a link grabber. Copy Youtube URL, grab the video files links (I usually pick mp4), download from YouTube with 20 connections. I max out my 20MBit connection and play the file locally.

And yes, I max out 20MBit/Sec on download at the same time that I am unable to even stream a 480p clip. Go figure :(
 
Thanks for this, Neil. Might have to try it out - my buffering speed at home is appalling and I often have to leave the webpage open for a number of minutes even when the video length is only like 2 minutes.
 
If youtube is slow it either an isp somewhere on the line limiting it, or you're just on a slow node.

Only constant solution to buffering has been the youtube auto buffer script for greasemonkey. Unfortunately it doesn't (yet) work with html5 vids, but it's been the best solution considering we can fix the isps or servers :p
 
Can't say i've ever had an issue with youtube buffer, I can comfortably stream two 4K res videos. With BT here. Have noticed though that normal res doesn't buffer fully, i've always put this down to bandwidth saving techniques.
 
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It does load faster, but then again the player is the smaller size and therefore downloading the smaller video (480p and under) unless I select 720p and up.

It's more down to your ISP and the quality of it. I haven't had problems with YouTube when running it normally.

I'd say it's more likely their software in their player that is causing the buffering if you can download at max on jDownloader.
 
You guys who have it slow, are you logged in? Sometimes that helps for me, think they realise who you are and stick you on different servers.
 
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