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  1. Toksyuryel Toksyuryel

    YouTube has decided to default the quality as low as possible on every video now. I wish there was an option to just tell it to always use the highest available quality. The best I can do is tell it to guess from my connection speed, but it always guesses wrong =/

    Thursday, 08-Nov-12 16:15:46 UTC from web
    1. Cerulean Lulamoon-Spark Cerulean Lulamoon-Spark

      @toksyuryel Isn't there a connection test video you can use to view the data it's using to draw its conclusions? Maybe your nearest youtube node is screwing up or something

      Thursday, 08-Nov-12 16:17:23 UTC from StatusNet Desktop
      1. Toksyuryel Toksyuryel

        @ceruleanspark If there is I've never heard of it before now. Can you point me to it?

        Thursday, 08-Nov-12 16:20:26 UTC from web
        1. Cerulean Lulamoon-Spark Cerulean Lulamoon-Spark

          @toksyuryel http://www.youtube.com/my_speed# should be it, but I'm not seeing the data I used to.

          Thursday, 08-Nov-12 16:24:14 UTC from StatusNet Desktop
          1. Toksyuryel Toksyuryel

            @ceruleanspark "Your average video speed at this location from Oct 10, 2012 to Nov 7, 2012 was 24.96 Mbps."

            Thursday, 08-Nov-12 16:25:42 UTC from web
            1. Cerulean Lulamoon-Spark Cerulean Lulamoon-Spark

              @toksyuryel At the bottom there's an option to display a "test video", which used to be overlayed with things like which youtube edge-cache you were hitting and what your real time transfer rates were. That's not working for me here though, so maybe they've done away with it.

              Thursday, 08-Nov-12 16:27:08 UTC from StatusNet Desktop
              1. Cerulean Lulamoon-Spark Cerulean Lulamoon-Spark

                @ceruleanspark Because lately, google seems to be all about getting rid of things which are useful in favour of a "Megacorp knows best" approach.

                Thursday, 08-Nov-12 16:29:26 UTC from StatusNet Desktop
              2. Toksyuryel Toksyuryel

                @ceruleanspark The test video plays but I'm not seeing an overlay ☹

                Thursday, 08-Nov-12 16:30:54 UTC from web
                1. colfax colfax

                  @toksyuryel @ceruleanspark Try tight clicking on the video and selecting Show Video Info.

                  Thursday, 08-Nov-12 16:33:09 UTC from web
                  1. Toksyuryel Toksyuryel

                    @colfax That appears to have sorta worked. I'm getting an overlay now but it still doesn't have the information that the page says it's supposed to have. However I noticed another option in that right-click menu, "take speed test". I am going to give that a try now.

                    Thursday, 08-Nov-12 16:35:30 UTC from web
                    1. colfax colfax

                      @toksyuryel That just brings you back to the same page.

                      Thursday, 08-Nov-12 16:36:06 UTC from web
                    2. Toksyuryel Toksyuryel

                      @toksyuryel ok "take speed test" just brings me to the same page XD haha guess that's a dud.

                      Thursday, 08-Nov-12 16:36:35 UTC from web