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How do I get Youtube Videos to load all the way?

It annoys me to a degree, as sometimes Youtube just loads their videos to a certain point, not all the way (though it does load all the way when I play it, so it's no real problem). Okay, that doesn't annoy me as much, but what DOES annoy me is that, when I click back on the video and go back to a certain part, suddenly, all the loaded video just drops and has to reload again.

How do I fix this? I cleared my Cache so many times, cleared my cookies once (though cookies I gained in the past hour), and nothing happened. Nothing was fixed. At this point, it's just random, and I really want to have some damn control over this situation.

Update:

I have firefox.

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  • 8 years ago
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    It's intentional, and there's nothing you can do on your side.

    YouTube has huge bandwidth needs, and it needs to minimize network transfer waste. It only downloads the part of the video it needs to display right now, not everything at once.

    Unfortunately:

    - It's often way too optimistic about the user's available bandwidth, and hence it often doesn't download enough of the video to display it seamlessly.

    - For some reason, if you skip to another part of the video, the previously downloaded part disappears from the cache, thus defeating the whole purpose of on-demand download. Perhaps there's a limit on the amount of data you can cache inside the Flash video player, and there's not a lot they can do about it. They're developing an HTML5-based player, which is better but incompatible with Internet Explorer and older browsers.

    - YouTube's topmost priority seems to make its ads display seamlessly, often at the expense of everything else. This seems to be a non-negotiable part of YouTube's business model.

    What I usually do when confronted with this problem is to download the video for later watching. I use SaveVid for this matter.

  • 8 years ago

    It is because of useless extensions installed on your browser, remove them, and download CCleaner, and use it, then it should load faster

  • 8 years ago

    wait for it to load completly it might take time

    :)

    Source(s): dunno
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