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low-batt opened this issue Jul 21, 2023 · 1 comment
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Slow seeking when streaming from YouTube #4522

low-batt opened this issue Jul 21, 2023 · 1 comment

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System and IINA version:

  • macOS unknown
  • IINA 1.3.2

Expected behavior:
Seeking with the arrow keys is fast.

Actual behavior:
In closed issue #4153 @YU0211 reported:

i tried to play youtube video by pasting link to IINA , in that circumstance I have to wait about 3 seconds every time i press left or right or scrolling .The internet speed is about 300M , so I think the issue may not comes from the internet.

As the issue with Bluetooth audio devices has been fixed in IINA 1.3.2 I am opening up a new issue for this report.

Steps to reproduce:
Stream a video from YouTube and seek using the arrow keys.

  • MPV does not have this problem.

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How often does this happen?
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I ran a test streaming Big Buck Bunny 60fps 4K from YouTube with audio directed to a Bluetooth speaker. Seeking with the arrow keys worked pretty well. I did encounter pauses when the seek went outside of the buffered parts of the video and IINA was waiting on YouTube.

Having a reasonable speed connection from your ISP is important. However a lot of issues with streaming from YouTube have been traced to YouTube throttling traffic.

The version of yt-dlp being used is critical. I ran this test with the version embedded in IINA 1.3.2:

low-batt@gag ~$ /Applications/IINA.app/Contents/MacOS/youtube-dl --version
2023.06.22
low-batt@gag ~$

One way to use the latest version of yt-dlp is to install it using brew and keep it up to date using that package manager. This shows me checking the version of yt-dlp installed by brew using Terminal:

low-batt@gag ~$ which yt-dlp
/opt/homebrew/bin/yt-dlp
low-batt@gag ~$ yt-dlp --version
2023.07.06
low-batt@gag ~$

To configure IINA to use the yt-dlp version installed by brew follow these instructions:

  • Start IINA
  • Click on Settings… under the IINA menu
  • The settings panel appears
  • On the left side of the panel click on Network
  • For the Custom youtube-dl path setting specify the full pathname to the directory containing yt-dlp
  • Restart IINA to activate the new settings

Where brew installed yt-dlp can be found using the prefix option as shown here:

low-batt@gag ~$ brew --prefix yt-dlp
/opt/homebrew/opt/yt-dlp
low-batt@gag ~$

I configured IINA to use the brew installed version:

issue-slow-youtube

And tested again. For the issue at hand I did not see a difference in seeking speed. However if you are experiencing issues with streaming from YouTube it is always desirable to try the latest yt-dlp and see if it fixes the problem.

So far I'm thinking what you are experiencing is YouTube behavior.

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