I’m not sure if you’ve experienced this problem before or not but I assure you I have. Sometimes I am able to view videos from YouTube without problems but sometimes the videos in YouTube would freeze and stops there. I even tried stopping any Internet activity so that the whole 1Mb download connection is reserved for viewing videos on YouTube. Still the same problem… I even tried different web browser and the streaming is still terrible!
Thankfully I found a very good accelerator tool that is able to help stream YouTube faster and smoother by reducing buffering problems and video interruptions or “hiccups”. It works on YouTube.com, myspace.com or any other web page with an embedded YouTube video inside.
SpeedBit Video Accelerator is able to reduce YouTube ‘movie freezes’ and ‘buffering’ problems as well as accelerates embedded YouTube videos around the web (MySpace.com, Blogger etc…) It includes extra features such as a cool search feature for finding videos around the web right from your desktop and also automatically bookmarking videos that you’ve accelerated for easy replays.
Totally no configuration needed. Just download, install and run SpeedBit Video Accelerator. You’ll see a small icon on your traybar meaning that the acceleration service is running. Once you visit any of the YouTube videos link, it’ll start accelerating.
With SpeedBit Video Accelerator installed, your browser’s connection to specific streaming video server is being rerouted through the Video Accelerator Daemon. Unlike the normal browser connection, the Daemon uses a unique patent pending technology, that substitutes the single connection with a sophisticated multi-connection algorithm. The end result is an (up to) 5 times faster connection, which handles the cache buffering (the “preloading” of the movie) much more efficiently. See diagram below for easier understanding.
Although the software name sounded like it supported any streaming videos, but it doesn’t. I just tried on Google Videos and there’s no activity on the SpeedBit Video Accelerator. I guess it will only support YouTube for the time being. The official website states “Speeding up YouTube is only the beginning – More video services coming soon!” Can’t wait because I love this program. Never had anymore problems in viewing YouTube videos after installed this wonderful FREE software.