How to Make YouTube Videos Load Faster

Sometimes YouTube videos have slow or hesitant buffer speeds with an Internet connection that is slow. When the video is buffering or downloaded into the browser cache, it can hinder the video. This leads to a repetitive and annoying start-stop quality during a video. But there are a few things that can be done to better a YouTube video viewing experience.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

1. Use the Fast Forward option on the YouTube player. Click on any position along the loading bar and the video will begin to play from there.

2. Push the YouTube video's Pause button. Allow the loading bar to turn completely red, which then means the entire video is fully loaded. Then, press the play button to view an uninterrupted video.

3. Install and use SpeedBit Video Accelerator. This software will open several links to a particular video on the servers of YouTube. This way different segments are downloaded at the same time, making it so that the whole video will play through once it begins, interruption-free.

4. Watch a saved YouTube video by downloading the FLV player which plays flash files. Use it to save a YouTube video to a hard disk.

5. Install Greasemonkey. Search for the script that will make a YouTube video play more smoothly and download it. This option is great for when you have multiple YouTube videos open and playing one stalls the other. A downloaded script can give you the option of a "stop" function in a video rather than only a "pause" function to remedy this.

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