SpeedBit Video Accelerator eliminates YouTube, iTunes stalling
Don’t you hate it when you try to watch a YouTube clip and it keeps stopping during playback? What it’s doing there is buffering more video data to play on your computer. The guys at SpeedBit have a fix for that: Install their free SpeedBit Video Accelerator, and it will make nearly all buffering stops go away.
How it works: YouTube normally only serves a video in one stream. It keeps the transfer rate low to keep YouTube’s bandwidth bill down. What SpeedBit does is send your video request to a server that chops up YouTube or iTunes videos into a bunch of shorter clips, then serves them to your PC or Mac in parallel. SpeedBit takes advantage of the fast network connections most people, at least in America, have for their home and work computers
Where’s the part where SpeedBit makes money? It’s here: The company sells $50 per year premium subscriptions that let you watch YouTube HD clips without sputtering.
SpeedBit is a Haifa, Israel-based company founded in 1999 when dialup modems were the roadblock to video bliss. I knew I could count on this one company to provide me with a demo video.
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Paul (paul@venturebeat.com) covers Apple & the iPhone, social networks & social media, digital music & video, and any crazy Internet story. Paul wrote and edited for Valleywag from 2006-2008, after several years with Wired magazine and Slate. He writes regularly for The New York Times' technology section and sometimes for Wired and The Wall Street Journal. He studied computer science at MIT in the early 1980s, and worked as a software developer and network administrator for 15 years before becoming a professional writer. Follow him on Twitter at @paulboutin, and follow VentureBeat on Twitter at @venturebeat.
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