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Re-buffering happens if you replay a video after it buffers completely till the end and if you click on the timeline far enough back during buffering.

I've looked through many threads but didn't find any fix/workaround for this. I saw some users saying changing values for media.cache_readahead_limit and media.cache_resume_threshold to 99999 fixed it but that didn't help and actually caused Firefox to stop buffering midway through videos.

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[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer 4 points 1 year ago

Wouldn't surprise me if nothing could be done to fix this. It might help if the quality level was fixed instead of variable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nope. That's one of the ways Google intentionally disadvantages browsers other than Chrome.

Install a user agent switcher and set it to the most recent Chrome agent string. You'll probably see a long of jank go away...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah. And I actually tried changing user agent with this but still no luck. Tried incognito as well with chrome's UA. Re-buffers the same as always.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year 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.

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