Streaming Video Performance

Tampere, Finland & 8Meg

Near London, England. 8MBit. ADSL
 
It's not bad but the videos seem to end when they want to, usualy a min or 2 before the end of the video. It's just a little buggy. I prefer the older video version because they're usualy short enough that they download fast but if there was to be another endurance run I'd prefer streaming or I'd prefer it that if you were about to click X on the tab or click something to go away from the page while the video is still running it should do the "you sure you want to?" like it does when you've got something written in the post box on a thread. That would work fine too.

Location: Sweden, Gävle 
  
Speed: 15 Mb/s
 
The video player slows down at times and sometimes the video stops entirely and I have to refresh the site, it's really annoying

Liverpool, UK, 4mbps, works fine for the most part but occasionally stutters, also videos seem to end early. old player was smoother for me personally.

Ohio, 6.5mbps.
 
Works okay mostly, but always cuts off the last few minutes of the video, and one constant buffering occurrence.

South Florida, USA - 0.93 Mb/s down according to SpeedTest.net...this is why I don't do a lot of online gaming. 
 
Lots of buffering after a few minutes of play.   I used to hit play, then pause and d/l the video to watch when it was about 66% done.  Now I have to stop and start a lot.

Toronto, Ontario

8Mbit/s

Works as intended.

The only problem I have with this is that I despise watching long videos in my browser, so I used a program to buffer and save videos as something I can watching in a media player program. That way I can watch at my leisure and jump around and close it and come back, etc. I can not longer do that. Also, if I don't finish watching the video the first time I'm never going to watch it as I can't jump to where I was. It also means I'm killing my bandwidth every time as it's not stored on my PC. 

Bury/Manchester in the UK.
 
Between 2/4meg connection. 0 issues on any quality setting.

Perfect, and the controls go away in Chrome now! (windows vista) 
 
location: Calgary, AB 
Connection: really fast

São Paulo, Brazil.
 
Got some hiccups, and the videos are always cutting before the end. Also, I now have no idea when they are buffering or not.
 
Got a broadband (6 MB) connection.

 South Carolina Beaufort
 
At Work: 6mb Business Cable  (Connection is O-K little up and down) Its okay for the most part but the moment that connection drops a bit... also been having Serious issues with the site itself, outright will not load for long periods of time then it just will just start working for a couple of hours then off again.
 
At Home:6mb DSL line, Rock solid connection because we live with very few people around us and here it works really good for the most part but still some hiccups.
 
Edit: Videos also cut off before they are through but I think its only the last 60 secs or so but it just kinda Stops.

I got to around 20 mins on the Crystal Bearers quick look and it got all studdery
 
Tampa, Fl 10mbps Cable broadband

Denver CO 
I get about half way to 2/3 through a vid then the loading image flashes like mad and it's choppy as hell.  and all videos stop early. 
 

The videos are fine for me, the forums are hiccuping & taking too long to load at times.
 
Location: Irvine, California
Connection: About 9 mbps

It's been going great for me. I have wireless internet not sure of the speed. I live in Bluffton, Indiana.

Toronto Ontario canada
12 mb
works fine no hiccups

It's really snappy, I can seek to an point and it starts playing instantly. I've had some videos just stop like they were over, before actually being over though. 
 
EDIT: Vancouver BC 
http://www.speedtest.net/result/644489905.png

The Netherlands, 8Mbit
works good sometime need to wait a minute before playing

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. 
 
68 Mb/s down, everything works fine for me. 

Ireland about forty miles from Dublin, 1.5 mbs down.  Seems a whole lot faster and more responsive to me.
 
If you do change back to the old way please don't get rid of the ability to skip around in videos without having to wait for them to load.

Sweden, Gothenburg
 
Sunet 10/10, Works fine at the moment.

Denmark, 12 mbit, there are some slight hiccups and some premature Duders...

Minneapolis, Minnesota. Cable - don't know the exact speed but it's fast enough.
 
Lots of hiccups and most videos cut off before the half way point requiring a page refresh to get them back working.  I preferred the old loading more.

Dundee, Scotland.

10mbps

Always choose medium videos with little initial buffer and then none there after.

The videos are ending around a minute before the end.
 
Location: UK
Connection Speed: 20MB

Los Angeles, California
Internet Speed: Something really low way less then 1 mb download
Works great just as it did before, only thing is as some people have said the video will end a few seconds to a minute before its supposed to.  Nothing to bad though since then i just click towards the end and then finish watching it so really working great.

I've always just let the whole video buffer before watching it so I don't have to constantly start and stop the video, so I've avoided any issues that straight up streaming can cause. As long as you don't mess with that option, it'll work fine for me.

Denmark, Copenhagen, 8-10 MBITS
 
Sudden Duder-interferences, where I have to refresh the page. Seems random at when it happens, but lately a lot.

 Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Connection Speed: 14 mb/s

My issue right now is that the video will stream for about one minute then flat our stop.  My progress is also lost and the point moves back to the beginning.  I can't however then restart the stream without doing a whole page refresh.
 
Currently using Firefox, tried it with IE and that also fails.
 
EDIT TO ADD: Huntington Beach, Ca. Fast connection, but behind firewall.

london UK, 20mb, chrome on os x, works fine

CA, USA
Videos end maybe about half a minute before it's supposed to end.  Slight instances of buffering at times.  Totally fine on the GB app.  Oh and 2 Mb/s download speed.

" Sweden, Gothenburg   "

Los Angeles, CA, at work (on a FAT pipe) and at home (AT&T DSL, their highest tier). Works great. I love that I can skip around without waiting; it's nice if I started watching it on my iPhone and want to finish it on a computer.

Portland, OR

Comcast 2mbps cable.

So far, videos over 10 minutes become unresponsive somewhere before the 15 mark, at which point I have to reload the page and skip ahead.

London, England. 8mbps
  
I can run up to 4 videos on high at the same time acorss Firefox and Chrome with no issues.

Virginia, USA
Cable internet
 
Sometimes the video feed hiccups, sometimes videos are cutting abruptly before the end.

Northville, Michigan, USA. (Metro-Detroit area)
Cable modem, speedtested at just over 6Mb/sec download speed.
 
So far, the streaming works perfectly fine for me. No issues whatsoever.

Toronto, ON 
802.11g/n 10mb cable 
Videos always stream fast enough for me to start watching immediately.

Videos constantly say loading but do not buffer (or appear not to). Let sit for over 10 min on 3 diff videos and they never played. Video that I did get to work was embedded, stopped at 18:31 (Daksiders QL)
 
Boulder, CO  T1 connection.
 
http://www.speedtest.net/result/675077674.png
 
59 mb/s down
58 mb/s up
Ping: 5ms
 
Edit: Site also running very slow, 45 sec to 1 min + to load a page, partial page loads.

Fresno, California 
5 mb/s over wireless 
Streams immediately with minimal buffering, but videos cut short for some reason.

Works just fine, from Zeist, Holland, on a 10/2 Cable connection.
Though I was a bit surprised when I couldn't open a few videos to buffer and watch them later, now I know the reason :)
 
EDIT: added city.

Live stuff in the GB office looks great on my wireless. Of chores the Iphone stuff if laggy but that's a fucking Phone.

Finland, 2Mbit and video cuts off all the time near end. What's wrong with the old system? I thought it was perfect. I really hate streaming video.

Works fine here.  Can skip forward to any part with merely one second buffering time on the Dark Void Quicklook
 
The Netherlands 
Wireless-9, around 2mbps. 
 
Can't vote on the poll though.. (Safari 4 on OSX 10.6)

Manchester, UK 
 
ADSL 16 MB/S over Wireless (G). 
 
Instant play, no problems with hangs or pauses.  
 
Two minor problems; 
 
1) Video's end before the actual end runtime (by only a second or two).
2) If left paused for some time the video can no longer be played.

the darksiders quicklook fucked up the first tiem for me, the second was fine. and i could just go directly to the minute it had fucked up before, a feature ive wanted in a long time. it never stopped to buffer either. props guys, as always!
 
oh and:
 
Location: Portugal
Connection : 8mb DSL