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Hi Erica,
Here is a followup to my last reply; dealing, more, with the specific
questions you raised:
On Sun, 20 May 2012, ebl7@chebucto.ns.ca wrote:
When a YouTube video is over, the screen is filled up with squares of
other videos to watch and most times the one you just watched isn't
visible so when you press play it starts to download from the beginning
all over again.
This is because the video in question is already loaded in YouTube's
video player. To watch it again, look for a small circular arrow in the
upper or lower left of the squares and you will see the arrow with the
word 'replay' by it. YouTube, sometimes, offers a selection of 9 other
videos it thinks that you might be interested in, dependent on what you
just watched. The 10th video, the one you just watched, is available by
clicking the replay arrow as noted above.
However, please note that, although you just watched the video, it
didn't download to your computer, it merely flashed the frames through
your dial-up connection to your browser and the file still resides on
YouTube, which means, if you want to see it again, you're going to have to
wait until it can be flashed down through your dial-up connection and to
your browser again. This is how YouTube works; even a high speed doesn't
download the actual file, it is flashed down thoguh your high internet
connection and to your browser.
Each time you play the video, you're restarting that sequence and,
through a high speed connection, you don't notice the wait time that you
would with dial-up. However, if you download it with Video Downloader,
you're actually making a copy of the video for yourself on your computer.
Then your fast computer with its ram power can play the video quickly and
as many times as you wish.
I have watched a few other videos. They lurch along as I have described
above but when they get to the end, I press play and they play. It seems to
only work if the video if less than 3 minutes long.
If the video in question isn't linked to other similar videos (as noted
above), it will simply end and leave a large replay arrow in a box in the
center of the screen for you to press again, if you want to rewatch that
particular video. It seems YouTube is linking more and more videos so
this feature may soon disappear, which means you'll have to use the small
replay arrow to rewatch any videos.
It is possible (and keep in mind that I have 1.25 GB of RAM) that you
can't watch any video that's more than a few minutes long with dial-up?
You can watch any video you want, even full movies, if you have the
patience to wait for it to download. Use the workarounds I listed in the
previous email to assist you in making your download experience a little
less stressful as the modern internet, with their streaming video and huge
file sizes, makes it pretty tough on dial-up. Your 1.25gb of ram would
only come into play once the video is completely on your computer. The
ram doesn't play a part in dial-up file transfer. It would, with high
speed, as your browser and other programs would utilize the extra ram.
Also, I frequently get some error message when I attempt to download a
video such as "error while loading" or "currently unavailable". I'm
suspicious that is more to do with my dial-up than something wrong on the
other end. Surely, 99% of videos on the Internet can't all be unavailable.
As I mentioned in the previous email, this is YouTube simply saying
'Houston, we have a problem'. YouTube is an extremely busy service and
sometimes their servers just get completely backlogged, which means no
one, especially dial-up, is getting anywhere fast. Just try later and
things are usually back to normal.
Tony @ CCN Help
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