In reply to a post by Oliver341:

Hmm, I'm running the HTML5 player with 1080p. No problems with saturation.

Maybe my Firefox can't cope.

In reply to a post by jchamier:

Maybe my Firefox can't cope.

Chrome here, maybe it plays nicer with its stable-mate Youtube.

Network utilisation (1% = 1Mb). Ignore the flatline 1/3 of the way in, that was something else.

http://postimg.org/image/oouux3flv/full/

So if some are seeing 30-50 mbits flash must be rate adapative, here is my rate, seems bursty after initial buffering.

Getting about 11mbps on IE11 presumably HTML5 player.

Edited by Banger (Tue 24-Mar-15 20:22:19)

In reply to a post by Banger:

So if some are seeing 30-50 mbits flash must be rate adapative, here is my rate, seems bursty after initial buffering.

Similar to mine then. Mine was using Task Manager on high refresh speed.

Edit: checked again and the flatline was video related.

Edited by Oliver341 (Tue 24-Mar-15 20:36:14)

In reply to a post by Banger:

Getting about 11mbps on IE11 presumably HTML5 player.

Right click on the video and you will see the player. To choose/force you can go to http://www.youtube.com/html5

Tried the HTML5 player and the data use was about the same but screen quality wasnt very smooth for me. Flash was a much smoother full screen playback, but I only have a cheap video card.

In reply to a post by Banger:

Tried the HTML5 player and the data use was about the same but screen quality wasnt very smooth for me. Flash was a much smoother full screen playback, but I only have a cheap video card.

I think Flash does caching.

4.5Mbps is sufficient to play the video you linked at its maximum quality.

Due to the different buffering techniques of players and variable bit rates, the only way to truly know is play full video and see how much data is used.

Snapshots of streaming usage can be deceptive, e.g. some buffer for 30 seconds and then may have a gap with no data received.