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Open Source extension that greatly increases streaming speeds (github.com)

submitted 4 months ago by xnx@slrpnk.net to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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I recently discovered this firefox\chrome extension that make streaming videos soo much faster. It also has built in subtitle support that lets you upload subtitles or search through opensubtitles. It's incredible how much faster videos load https://github.com/Andrews54757/FastStream

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[-] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 36 points 4 months ago

how does it work?

[-] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 64 points 4 months ago

Automatic fragmentation and parallel requests for up to 6x faster download speeds. Watch videos without interruptions by predownloading the video in the background.

Looks like it mostly just buffers the video more aggressively. If you have a good Internet connection it won't do anything useful other than peg the server's connection downloading the entire video file at gigabit speeds and make it worse for other viewers.

[-] taaz@biglemmowski.win 34 points 4 months ago

I would worry about getting rate-limited then, I've seen some content servers just be very picky about making too many requests (through jumping in the video too far too often).

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 18 points 4 months ago

"You're trying to be efficient and you use a computer too well, you must be a bot! You're banned."

My experience every time I try to use most ecommerce sites like amazon

[-] mac@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago

It's more that abnormal traffic gets flagged, and you end up getting limited

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 5 points 4 months ago

I get that its abnormal for me to open twenty tabs for a bunch of products and a bunch of different queries simultaneously. That's just being good at computers, and it should be encouraged.

Don't ban people who are abnormal. Machine learning anomaly detection is making the internet unusable.