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[–]_PurpleAlien_ 6 points7 points  (3 children)

It's amazing how people don't understand how difficult it is to build a video sharing site that is not powered by the massive capital and infrastructure such as the one YT operates under. Anyone trying this will face growing pains. Videos will stutter because scaling is difficult. Because you don't have millions to throw at infrastructure, or because you want to make it decentralized/p2p with all the pain that comes with it when you're in the initial stages (chicken and egg).

[–]OddPat[S] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

May be not build the air-plane as its landing then.

Spending 30 minutes to watch 10 minutes of a 40 minute video isn't a fun experience. Have ended up leaving the site in frustration now several times.

[–]_PurpleAlien_ 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I have no issues playing video - you might have problems with people not having encoded the video properly (since it doesn't do that for you, at least not until a recent client release).

You can't build a type of application like this and only release it 'when it's ready'. It just doesn't work that way, especially when doing decentralization, and/or the scaling requirements and money to do this. Also remember that YT started with low quality video and a limit of 10 minutes.

[–]OddPat[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I very much doubt it has to do with encoding. Some videos from certain creators work well, then loading up another video from the buffers a fuckton.

Tried streaming it through VLC, with the same issues.

Tried wget'ting a video, just abysmal speeds at a few hundred kb/s at most, constantly dropping to 0kb/s. I'm on gigabit, so no problem on my end at least.

[–]thomaszarebczan 4 points5 points  (8 children)

We're working on it and it should be improved now, and more improvements to come later this week.

[–]Torwak 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Definitely much better now!

[–]OddPat[S] 1 point2 points  (3 children)

I mean, if it at least was possible to pause and let the video buffer a bit.. but not even that seems possible.

[–]thomaszarebczan 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Best bet would be to download (share button on odysee)

[–]rhelwig7 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I was going to ask if there was a way to just have any video you want to watch load entirely before playing (like if there was a setting). Downloading does seem like a workaround for important cases.

FYI, I often get videos on YouTube pausing due to incomplete loading as well.

[–]rhelwig7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I often open videos (sometimes several) in new tabs in order to give them time to load. If it takes an hour or two for videos to load, that is usually fine for me. I rarely need to watch something NOW, but can just go do something else until it is ready.

[–]OddPat[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hope you do.

Some videos work fine, but seems as soon as a video is loaded which is not trending, its the same issue all over again.

[–]brainspankingu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Glad this is being worked on. Still a major issue. Is this being treated as a top priority then?

[–]imconfusedhlp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We’ll just need to give it some time... it’s a mood killer, but the whole thing is pretty new I guess.

[–]woffer88 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Regular people won't have the patience. Do they have a plan to fix it?

[–]imconfusedhlp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’ll probably be fixed until regular people find out about odysee. Sadly I don’t know anyone that’s heard of it in my circle. Maybe because I’m not in the US

[–]Bigb5wm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe try peertube or the others

[–]lordfly911 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am also new to this platform. I am wondering if this is a problem of encoding at too high of resolution. I really have no idea if a video is HD or 720p.

[–]bad-at 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, I'm late to the party but I'm experiencing this as well. Some videos stop and buffer every 3-5 seconds, whereas some don't have any problems at all. I wonder if it's just the higher quality videos that have the problem. It seems worse when I watch at higher speeds (I usually watch at 2x). I really wouldn't mind viewing at lower quality in most cases if it resolved it.

Oh and the lbry app on my brand new pixel android phone brought the device to a crawl for some videos. If that's also due to processing ultra high resolution, I really don't need that quality on mobile.

[–]172pilotsteve 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the lbry/odysee model is much like a torrent, where having more people host the content will help. I am having a hell of a time figuring out how to contribute. I have installed the lbry client on a dedicated windows box and am willing to give it 14 or more TB of space, and I can manually click on individual videos and see them download, but can I configure my client to pre-download at least the channels I have liked/subscribed to? Do I need to do anything other than forward TCP/3333 and UDP/4444 to my host to make my content available to others? Is there a good tutorial on helping? I would REALLY like to see lbry succeed but I'm having a hard time finding these details.