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YouTube embedded videos loading slowly

Hi,

We allow people on one of our sites to post their embedded you tube videos thus displaying them on a site. One the homepgae where we display various peoples videos, so displaying ten at once, we have found that our server is really taking a long time to load these.

Is this our server why the you tube videos take an age to load? This has been commented by people with fast broadband speeds, so it is the server and not a client issue. If we find the same video on you tube it is fine.

Andrew

cmhunty

How are the users displaying videos on your site? Are they just using the links given to them by YouTube? Is your server actually hosting anything? If not, the delay is more likely to be on the YouTube or client side.

Chris

REA_ANDREW

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They simply paste in the object code provided by YouTube next to each video. We store this in the database and simply render it at runtime.

Andrew

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volking

I'm no expert, but ... doesn't each instance sets up a new application thread to shockwave. I think shockwave uses tunneling to establish the video stream. As each successive instance starts, that instance begins "stepping" on prior instance's packette requests which cause a re-send. As the quantity of re-sends escalate, the need to re-send escalates, too. Thus a snowball effect is manifested when your page tries to show multiple. Each instance is competing for the same resource, and STEPPING on each other, and the more they step on the more they resend. Geometrical degradation.

Try fewer video's on the same page. You may find a sweet spot where the tradeoff isn't so apparent. Good Luck!

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