• Echo Dot
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    3 months ago

    Just download the video then.

    Youtube stop doing this because people would pause a Multi-Hour long video (such as a music video) download the entire thing, only to then only watch 15 minutes of it because that’s the bit they wanted. Massive waste of bandwidth

    • @I_Has_A_Hat
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      203 months ago

      If only there were some middle ground between multi-hours and 30 seconds.

      • @LifeInMultipleChoice
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        43 months ago

        Seriously, load the next 15 minutes, then start loading that when it plays those 15 minutes

        • @Doomsider
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          43 months ago

          Wow, this guy solved the problem just like that. It is almost like there must be some other reason they did this other than what they say.

    • @Pacattack57
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      123 months ago

      What do you mean “waste of bandwidth”? We’re paying for that through government subsidies and selling our personal data. Are you seriously defending a corporation that made $250 billion last year in ad revenue alone?

      • @mildlyusedbrain
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        163 months ago

        This is a weird point. Like yes, Google is a government subsidized monopoly. But to keep this feature is a massive waste of resources.

        Like from a tech perspective, this should not be done. Like fuck Google can be a thing and will have no impact on that

        • @JustAnotherKay
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          93 months ago

          People hate corporations so much that they forget some times they do make smart choices. That bandwidth doesn’t just exist from nothing, it’s electricity being moved around. The environmental impact, even as infinitesimal as it may be, isn’t worth the convenience imo

          • @optissima
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            33 months ago

            The hypocrisy of this when they’re chugging power for AI…

      • Echo Dot
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        53 months ago

        Defending no explaining yes.

        Need to chill out not everything you do not understand needs to be an argument.

      • @AnUnusualRelic
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        93 months ago

        Beethoven’s 7th symphony, the music video.

      • @sulgoth
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        63 months ago

        People stitch together what is essentially a play list of music videos because YouTube’s actual playlist feature kinda sucks. Has something to do with longer videos, engagement and ad revenue too but I’m not privy to that Eldritch knowledge.

      • @Psythik
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        23 months ago

        Compilations exist.

        • @RampantParanoia2365
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          23 months ago

          I guess. I don’t know why anyone would watch a 2 hour compilation for 3 videos though.

          • Tlaloc_Temporal
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            53 months ago

            “Lo-fi beats to study to”

            Lots of people just need filler music while doing something for several hours, yt playlists are ass, picking a new song every 2-9 minites is quite disruptive, and any form of autoplay will eventually dump you in alt-right politics.

          • @Psythik
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            13 months ago

            You’ve never seen a Video DJ mix before? They can go on for several hours and have more than just 3 songs—usually a dozen or more—all mixed seamlessly into one continuous mix with no gaps between songs. And if the person who made the mix is a real DJ, the songs are also BPM- and Key-matched with each other, which sounds absolutely amazing when done right. It’s one of the better ways to enjoy music.

    • @A_Random_Idiot
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      83 months ago

      Oh no, google lost .3cents of bandwidth. the horror.

      • @AlotOfReading
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        133 months ago

        Even if it was 3 cents in bandwidth (it’s not), that’s 1.3 billion dollars in additional costs. You want more ads to pay for that?

        • @A_Random_Idiot
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          3 months ago

          And thats probably a rounding error in googles costs.

          For a much more usable, enjoyable experience.

          That you’re arguing against, because wont someone think of poor googles downtrodden finances.

          • @AlotOfReading
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            53 months ago

            Billion dollar costs aren’t rounding errors even at YouTube/Google’s scale. They’re a measurable percentage of total revenue. I agree that it slightly improves the user experience, it’s hard to imagine a worse cost/benefit tradeoff from an engineering perspective even at more realistic costs. It’s especially hard to justify when there’s an easy alternative for users in the form of downloading videos.

    • @MehBlah
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      63 months ago

      Now after the second commercial I hit a youtube downloader from a European vpn. I still download it all just to watch what I want.

      • @[email protected]
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        33 months ago

        Why European VPN?

        Fun fact: if you bypass DPI in Russia, ypu can watch youtube without ads. Because youtube temproary disabled them.

    • @[email protected]
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      33 months ago

      What’s going on with YouTube video downloading? Any route I take to try to download, it only gives me the option of 1080p video only and a different option for audio only. I’ve recently downloaded a couple of videos my kids watch for offline use and I had to put the downloaded files into a video editor to combine the audio and video myself.

      Here’s one video I wanted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O2g3Ql3nRU

      • @Glitterbomb
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        113 months ago

        If you ever find yourself combining audio and video again, check out mkvtoolnix. In this situation, a video editor is overkill and potentially transcodes the audio or video, taking an hour. This tool is basically winzip for video files, it lets you swap audio and video tracks around in a few seconds.

      • @[email protected]
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        3 months ago

        Yes can use Seal (GitHub/F-droid) on Android or yt-dlp on a PC to download a video in any resolution with audio

    • @Alexstarfire
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      23 months ago

      The amount of times my video brings unplayable even though it has a few minutes buffered is too damn high. Almost all the times my video gets stuck, is that scenario. Not to say it happens all the time.