Without actually trying this, I dont think anyone should be surprised that
loading an HD video on 2g mobile is going to suck and that a site that
dynamically adapts the video to your bandwidth constraints is going to be
much better. Even with a super fast internet, the youtube video will still
be better if the size of the video is too much to handle.
While there is many interesting things happening in video right now, afaik
they are not deployed/finished yet, and the current state of video on
wikimedia as currently deployed, particularly video on the mobile site, is
not even trying.
--
Bawolff
On Monday, January 11, 2016, Joaquin Oltra Hernandez <
jhernandez(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi,
Here's an interesting video that we didn't get to show on the Developer
Summit.
This is me with my Nexus 5 (Android 6) on 2G in Spain loading
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack
Obama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1w0EcuiUjo
Write your own conclusions, hopefully this will make us think.
If you can set your device from your country to 2G and try it out on an
incognito window (cold cache) and share the results, I would be very
interested to see if your experience is the same as mine.
Cheers,
Joaquin
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