Replaying a video on YouTube makes it buffer all over again instead of it playing instantly like Chrome does. Is there any fix for this? ( fedia.io )

KoolKai , 11 months ago

I just compared the behavior in both Chromium and Firefox on my machine, and as far as I can tell, they act the same.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erQ_9yEz0ls
2. Play the last 10 seconds
3. Click "replay" button in the YouTube player

What happens:

The buffer is cleared in both browsers.

What are you seeing that is different?

azureVM1 OP , 11 months ago

You're supposed to let it play/buffer all the way till the end. Then press replay or when you're like 50-60% through the video, click on the timeline far enough back i.e < 1 min.

For example, when this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tdiKTSdE9Y finishes playing for me, and I press replay, YouTube starts rebuffering the video from scratch. In Chrome's case, the buffer is still there.