Compared to other video sharing services, YouTube is definitely one of the best in streaming video in slower connections. Sometimes, when you connect via mobile devices or when you don’t have an enough internet speed, the buffering will take a long time. If you are not in a position to upgrade your internet speed, you can try this new application called “SmartVideo for YouTube” to enhance your buffering speed. It will automatically identify the slow connections and will boost the buffering speed of your video. Here’s how it works.
While Sometimes the Videos buffering slows down and even not at all loads The simple workaround to fix this slow buffering YouTube Videos, You have to click the pause button and wait for the full video load in your browser. Frankly I don’t know why it happens to some time while most of the time YouTube Videos are playing possibly at the best. ISP Throttling or Bandwidth throttling is the one of the primary reason for slow buffering YouTube Videos. Other than this there could be a problem in the Google server-side. Then, You may ask , What is the Solution ? Is there any Workaround to watch my favorite YouTube Videos without any Trouble? SmartVideo is the extension for Google Chrome which provides better control over YouTube buffering, quality and playing options.
Install the Smart Video Extension from the Google Web store and start customize your YouTube Experience. The best bet of this extension: you can set all these features for embedded YouTube videos too. The new YouTube UI stops the buffers after you press the pause button. But this extension ensures that a buffer will load even after you press the pause video button.
SmartVideo’s software lets its users control how YouTube clips stream. Through the add-on, users can choose to let a video fully load before it starts to play. Alternatively, SmartVideo users can allow the “smart buffer” feature to decide when to begin play videos, as determined by each user’s respective download speed. According to its site, SmartVideo’s features work on “regular” YouTube videos as well as the site’s embedded and HTML5 players.
Features of Smart Video :
- Works with all embedded/HTML5 YouTube videos. Be it a Facebook news feed video or a video directly from YouTube site.
- With global preferences, all YouTube videos can be set to start on your wish.
- When the video is buffered completely, or whatever buffer percentage you choose.
- Let SmartVideo decide when it's good to start playing. SmartVideo's 'smart buffer' decides the buffer percentage based on your current download speed.
- Or just make the YouTube videos to start buffering when the page loads. You can play the video whenever you wish.
- Along with above buffer strategies, you can opt to defer video initialization video until you click on it.
- The buffer strategy can be set for individual YouTube player or as the Global preferences. Just hover your mouse over any YouTube video.
- Calculates time left before the video starts playing. (Hover the mouse over the YouTube video)
- Once a video is buffered as desired, sound notification can be raised instead of playing the video.
- SmartVideo can default the video quality or size based on the user preference.
- 'Loop' option on all YouTube videos.
- Separate preferences for embedded, 'on youtube.com' videos and playlists.
- Enable/disable 'switching to HD on fullscreen' option.
It is an excellent plugin to take a complete control over the videos you watch on YouTube. Especially, people who access YouTube in slow connections, can buffer till they want and watch them without any interruptions. Try this app in your browser and share your experience with us in the comments. Thanks for reading, do share this post with your friends.