In the last month I’ve noticed that when I switch to fullscreen during a YouTube video – it has to rebuffer the whole thing again.

Anyway, I’ve found some more options that can be tweaked – Go to YouTube.com > “username” > Account > Playback settings – then switch to “I have a slow connection”. You can manually switch to a high quality version of the video when watching it, but this option stops this from happening automatically.

YouTube settings

I didn’t actually end up using these slides on the day, but here they are with notes & links.

Please note: The geniuses behind the Linked Data API are listed here and Jeni Tennison is also the genius behind the API’s HTML Viewer, which makes API responses human friendly and a joy to develop with, transforming this into this!

More information about the “reference” data I’m using and examples of the Linked Data API & HTML Viewer can be found in the Linked Data section on the data.gov.uk website.

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