Yeah, I download whatever I want to watch and fire up vlc. 0 ads, 0 buffering.
Comment on YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
I mean, when I want to watch TV or Movies, I load it into my torrent program 🏴☠️ and let it download in the background. I could do the same with youtube videos.
SmokingCookie@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
jaupsinluggies@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
Technically that’s 100% buffering.
mrvictory1@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Technically VLC buffers 1.5 seconds by default which actually broke streaming over SSHFS (phone’s filesystem mounted via KDE Connect) for me, had to increase buffer to 10 secs
SmokingCookie@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Touché :P
gegil@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
I had a time, when i had frequent internet disconnections, and connection speed was slow in general, so while i had the internet connection, i just downloaded a bunch of videos, to then watch offline. Suprisingly, downloading video even with slow internet is faster than streaming it, despite when streaming it, videos was always buffering. Now i have stable internet and i can just stream videos without the problem, even by using third party app with no ads and without account.
jungle@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Wait, you think all YouTube content is available in torrents?
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
I mean like the downloading aspect. There are a lot of youtube downloading tools available for practically every OS desktop or mobile (well except iOS)
jungle@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
You specifically said BitTorrent. Do you know how that works?
ayaya@lemdro.id 5 weeks ago
I already do this. There are several apps for it but I really like [Pinchflat] (github.com/kieraneglin/pinchflat) because it has metadata settings for Jellyfin.
All I have to do is add a video to a playlist and it gets automatically downloaded. I use it for archival but there’s nothing stopping you from making it the only way you consume YouTube content.