Open Source extension that greatly increases streaming speeds
Open Source extension that greatly increases streaming speeds
github.com
GitHub - Andrews54757/FastStream: Stream videos without buffering in the browser. An extension that replaces bad video players on the internet with a better, accessible video player designed for your convenience.
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
how does it work?
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.
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).
If you have good internet it could make it significantly better
Tcp transfers are limited by the product of window size and latency, if I am in Australia with gigabit internet downloading from Europe then I could be limited at mere megabits with a single connection!
There's no way your internet is faster than the server's (in most cases)
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.