Youtube – How to change the language of video ads on YouTube

It seems to be on a video by video basis. Your 'create a spaceship' tutorial will buffer when paused, but your 'create a city' tutorial will not.

They seem to use slightly different players; based on the right-click menus. The spaceship tutorial mentions HTML5 and the city tutorial has the standard Flash menu.

You could try forcing the use of a different media player or you could try joining Youtube's HTML5 trial; the 'create a city' tutorial buffers fine when played using the HTML5 player.

https://www.youtube.com/html5

Edit to include solution by Andrew Price:

1. Login in to your YouTube account
2. In 'Settings' go to the 'Playback' menu
3. Under 'Video Playback Quality' check the 'I have a slow connection' option

This will default video output to 360p, but you can manually alter this when playing the video. Even at higher definitions the video will continue to buffer.

Yes, you can.

If you are the video owner, you can make captions appear by default by adding this tag to your video: yt:cc=on. It won't stop people from turning them off by clicking the CC button, but it will default captions to 'on' for most users.

Embedded videos

• When you embed a video on another site, you can make it so that captions are always shown on the embedded video. To enable captions on a video you'd like to embed, just add &cc_load_policy=1 to the video's embed code.
• You can also choose a caption language for the embedded video. To specify the caption language for the video that you'd like to embed, just add &hl=fr&cc_lang_pref=fr&cc_load_policy=1 to the video's embed code. Here, hl sets the language for the player menu, cc_lang_pref sets the language for the captions shown in the video, and cc_load_policy=1 makes captions on by default. fr represents the ISO 639 language code for French. You can look up 2-letter language codes in the ISO 639-1 standard.

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