GitHub - Andrews54757/FastStream: Stream videos without buffering in the browser. An extension that gives you a better, accessible video player designed for your needs.
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Stream videos without buffering in the browser. An extension that gives you a better, accessible video player designed for your needs. - Andrews54757/FastStream

I recently discovered this firefox\chrome extension that make streaming videos soo much faster. It also has built in subtitle support that lets you upload subtitles or search through opensubtitles. It’s incredible how much faster videos load https://github.com/Andrews54757/FastStream

    • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
      68·
      26 days ago

      Automatic fragmentation and parallel requests for up to 6x faster download speeds. Watch videos without interruptions by predownloading the video in the background.

      Looks like it mostly just buffers the video more aggressively. If you have a good Internet connection it won’t do anything useful other than peg the server’s connection downloading the entire video file at gigabit speeds and make it worse for other viewers.

      • taaz@biglemmowski.winEnglish
        34·
        26 days ago

        I would worry about getting rate-limited then, I’ve seen some content servers just be very picky about making too many requests (through jumping in the video too far too often).

        • delirious_owl@discuss.online
          19·
          26 days ago

          “You’re trying to be efficient and you use a computer too well, you must be a bot! You’re banned.”

          My experience every time I try to use most ecommerce sites like amazon

          • mac@lemm.ee
            6·
            26 days ago

            It’s more that abnormal traffic gets flagged, and you end up getting limited

            • delirious_owl@discuss.online
              7·
              26 days ago

              I get that its abnormal for me to open twenty tabs for a bunch of products and a bunch of different queries simultaneously. That’s just being good at computers, and it should be encouraged.

              Don’t ban people who are abnormal. Machine learning anomaly detection is making the internet unusable.

      • MangoPenguinEnglish
        6·
        26 days ago

        I’ll have to try it out for youtube, I’m on gigabit internet (and hardwired), but youtube will often stall out when trying to buffer part way through videos and take quite awhile to figure itself out.

    • XNX@slrpnk.netOP
      5·
      26 days ago

      The youtube player is pretty good for me so i only use it on streaming sites but thanks for reporting that

  • plz1@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    26 days ago

    Just having the video player be the same across all sites is a win, I don’t even need the multi-threading or pre-cache entire video to love this.