YouTube higher quality = no buffering

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While watching videos (no video in particular) if the video starts buffering at 360p, I switch to 240p and it still buffers but if I switch to 480p it doesn't. I'm connected directly to a router so signal variation should not be an issue.

This happens on all desktop platforms I have tried. I used Chrome for all of them.

How come?

Best Answer

For improved buffering of 480p videos on YouTube try enabling the YouTube HTML5 Video Player at this link.