YouTube updates its video player
Cory Bergman September 12th, 2006
YouTube’s control bar has a new look, which in my humble opinion is the best media player out there. First, there’s the version you see on the site:
And the version you see if it’s shared on a blog, with the bug:
I love the idea that a shared media player has different properties than one inside the site’s environment. Great idea. And remember, embedded players are completely resizable. For example, check out a Diggnation outtake on a mega-sized player.
6 Comments Add your own
1. discreet_chaos | September 12th, 2006 at 7:56 am
It’s a nice player for low-quality video, but I wish it wouldn’t need to start clips over, if you resize the screen. I haven’t done a full inventory of every available player, but most of the ones that I use on a regular basis will let me enlarge to fullscreen without restarting. It’s especially annoying with YouTube’s autoplay within their website. If I open one of their pages, the things starts playing and if I decide that I need to go fullscreen so that I can see better, it automatically restarts the clip from the beginning.
I realize that folks may be willing to accept crappy quality and a blurry picture because Apple won’t fix their WMP problem and some people have a problem with Real; It may even be a Flash problem because Google’s thing does the same thing, but it’s still annoying as all get out and it’s a major issue, if you’d like to watch something longer than a few seconds. In those cases, either you have to watch the whole thing fullscreen and in and embedded player, or you’re stuck with a size without starting over.
2. Rex | September 12th, 2006 at 1:18 pm
It’s not the “problem” with any of the player platforms (Flash, WMP, QT) — it’s that YouTube (and many others) deliver low bit-rate files, most likely as a cost-saving measure.
3. discreet_chaos | September 12th, 2006 at 2:25 pm
I understand that the low quality is a budget issue. My point was that those using a standard player (Real, QT, WMP) will allow you to resize the screen without missing a beat. Sure, Yahoo! Music, Comedy Central and several other sites will throw-up an alert with instructions on escaping fullscreen, but the video keeps going underneath and unlike Google and YouTube, it doesn’t force you to start over. On some of the longer clips this can be real issue, though their players do seem good about letting you skip ahead.
And heck — At least YouTube fixed the thing where their original page would keep playing, while the enlarged version in a new window would start from the beginning.Back then, if you didn’t go to the extra step of stopping the original stream, you’d get double sound and probably doubled their bandwidth requirements.
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