How to play YouTube videos smoothly on your computer

[piccolomondo]

You are watching some video clip on YouTube or Google Videos but the video isn't playing continuously - it keeps stopping and starting. So you watch the video clip for couple of seconds but soon give up, disappointed.

No worries. Here's a "for dummies" method to ensure that Youtube videos playback smoothly on your computer:

Open the Youtube page and immediately press the Pause button on the Youtube player.
You'll see a red bar progressing towards the right. That indicates Youtube video is being downloaded onto your computer.

When the red bar reaches the extreme right, click the Play button. As the full video is available in your browser's cache, the playback will be very smooth.

The above trick can be applied to most video sharing sites like that provide a Flash video player with Play/Pause controls.

Alternatively, you can download the YouTube Video clip as an FLV or MP4 file to your hard disk.

[Bent_Bladi]

ah, but there's a catch ... it takes FOREVER for the redness to load

[piccolomondo]

ah, but there's a catch ... it takes FOREVER for the redness to load

BB, did you forget the 'shwaya-shwaya rules'?