code-charity / code-charity/youtube
Buffer Full Video. Preload whole videos. (issue: fail for biggest videos by browser defaults)
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Description
Edit by @ImprovedTube:
youtube buffering might not be controlable or documented now?
in 2021 Victor worked on an extension to access youtube streams without the youtube player: https://github.com/code-charity/unBlob (needs an update by now)
similar: "buffer more?" #2986
Hi!
I have a shitty connection so my youtube player often switches down the video quality to the point where I don't want to watch it.
Youtube used to buffer the whole video. Now it doesn't anymore (for a long time). I want to buffer to 100% and then watch the video.
Please add an option to buffer the whole video.
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Research direction
Start by investigating the YouTube player buffering behavior and the browser-default limitation described in the issue; compare the related #2986 and unBlob references. Done means establishing whether full-video preloading is controllable and, if so, exposing an option that achieves it.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- frontend, web-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100