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@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.
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