On 4/20/2015 7:30 AM, micky wrote:
On Sun, 19 Apr 2015 19:16:23 -0400, Dan Espen
wrote:

micky writes:



When I
press pause, it always has a hard time restarting

Press the triangular forward button.

It usually doen't work.

And this time I started to watch the animated version mentioned during
Engineer Guy's good version. I got bored and wanted to go to one of the
other many selections, but how to do I make the one I'm watching finish
right away?

Same deal with the progress bar.

Moving the dot to the end has worked for me once, but it didn't work
this time. Instead the video would not go forward any farther.

Are you claiming this stuff works for you, or only that you've never
wanted to do these things,

What browser do you use? What OS?


Youtube video progress bar:

If you click ahead of the progress bar into the black portion you need
to wait for the buffering (grey portion) to catch up. The red portion
is what has played. The grey bar in front of the red shows how much of
the video has been downloaded and buffered to your computer's memory.

I am on DSL which isn't as fast as cable so see this all the time with
youtube videos. Sometimes if I click ahead of the grey progress bar into
the black portion the video won't play and looses its connection so the
page needs manually reloaded. This is generally accompanied by an error
message.

Those on cable may never or only briefly view the grey portion of the
progress bar actually advancing and not notice the black unbuffered portion.

As far as running it backwards, as far as I know it won't do that, but
you can click on the red portion that has already played to replay all
or a portion of what has been viewed.

If you want to pause the video you are watching and watch something else
you will need to watch the second video in a new tab or new window. Just
clicking on it in the current window resets the connection of the
current window.

At least thats how it works in Firefox running on XP here.

John