How much bandwidth for 1080p YouTube stream?

[AsRock]

I have a 20/4 and default it don't work well here either unless you right click the video settings and change the local storage to unlimited.

 

[Peter1986C]

Of course, the same goes for my fiber glass connection at my student room (which is even faster according to speedtest.net). Simply put, let's regard the video as a sausage for your pc. If you limit the size of the chunks of the sausage, your pc won't eat the sausage that fast. If you set it to unlimited, the size of the chunks will be brought to the mouth as fast as the size of the mouth (the power of the pc), the size of the fork (the size of the workload per pc that the servers can handle) and how fast the fork will bring the chunks of sausage from the plate to the mouth (the connection speed).

Put even simpler: if you limit the streaming bandwidth to for example 1 MB/s, than the video will stutter if it demands more than that.

Conclusion: no matter how fast your connection is, always do as described in the previous post (and by me a few posts back) and put the streaming bandwidth on unlimited to get the max out of your connection. Or click pause and wait until the download is completed (you will see the bar underneath the video being filled with a colour different than the one showing the view progress).

 

[newtekie1]

I tried Google but most answers on top not clear and get into theoretical calculations of quality and length, or off topic, like PC hardware.

Anyway how much minimum bandwidth do I need to play 1080p YouTube video smoothly without waiting for preload? Currently I have 2.5mb, and its barely able to stream 720p. Sometimes it does, but sometimes it pauses.

Basically you need a consistant 10Mb/s connection at least, some content requires slightly more.

You also have to consider where the servers are located, and where you are located. If you are loading a video stored on a server half way round the world, then chances are somewhere along the line it will hit a slow connection. You can have a 100Mb/s connection, but if the data is being routed through a 2Mb/s connection along the way, then you are only going to get 2Mb/s.

I believe Youtube's servers are located in the Western US somewhere, so the farther you are away, the more likely you are to get a slow connection and not be able to stream HD content. If you are overseas, then that is even worse.

I fail to see how you think you are watching HD on a monitor of that resolution

Although it may play the video's just fine on that resolution it isn't displaying the video's in HD format:


http://img.techpowerup.org/100912/Capture070.jpg

Anything over 720p is considered HD. So a 1280x1024 screen is capable of displaying HD.

 

[Lionheart]

Youtube suks ballx for me, it even sumtimes takes awhile for 360p to load up, thats from a 30Mbit net connection

 

[Peter1986C]

Anything over 720p is considered HD. So a 1280x1024 screen is capable of displaying HD.

I guess that Tech2 just meant 1080i/1080p.

Youtube suks ballx for me, it even sumtimes takes awhile for 360p to load up, thats from a 30Mbit net connection

Did you do the slider trick as described earlier? You simply have to do that as the folks from Adobe for got to make proper default settings for their Flash player. If you tried and it doesn't help, try Dailymotion.com.