Dembot: YouTube Jumping

+ YouTube Jumping

Google has implemented their jumping feature into YouTube videos and it's really nice. As you know, with most flash videos, you can't scroll ahead until the video completely loads out beyond the point you want. With a YouTube video, now you can jump ahead and the video will start to load out from the new point foward, wasting no more time or energy loading any of the prior sections of the video.

Above, you can see I clicked the scoller to the middle of the video. It then began to play from the new point and started to load out ahead (and then behind next).

This is a very elegant feature that saves bandwidth and gives the audience way more flexibility for consuming information quickly.

Posted to online video by Drew on September 8, 2007 12:48 AM

Comments:

+ Connie Crosby

Finally! That is great--thank you for pointing it out.

Cheers,
Connie

Posted: September 8, 2007 1:12 AM

+ Mike Doeff

This is very cool but isn't this something that Google Video introduced over a year ago? http://urltea.com/1fjq Did they just port this feature to YouTube?

Posted: September 8, 2007 1:32 AM

+ Drew

Yep, as I mentioned and linked to in the post above, it's a Google Video feature that was implemented last year.

Ever since Google bought YouTube, I've been anticipating this to happen.

Posted: September 8, 2007 1:41 AM

+ Andreas Haugstrup

More importantly: Why are you watching hilariously bad Danish music videos from the late 70s? Apache!

Posted: September 8, 2007 4:33 AM

+ Bill Cammack

Yeah, that's an important feature. When I can't FF something, I either let it load in the background and come back to it later, or forget about it entirely.

I only want to watch what I want to watch. :D

Posted: September 8, 2007 7:32 AM

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