SteveRowlands said:

SteveRowlands
web-question

Why is Qik so shit when you want to watch a video post on their site? Are they only paying the $3 a month hosting package?

1 year, 7 months ago.

12 comments so far

  • bensmithuk

    What's the problem?

    1 year, 7 months ago by bensmithuk

  • SteveRowlands

    It just takes an age for the video to start streaming, no progress bar to let you know how much it has already downloaded, the play/pause button just seems to have a mind of it's own and just doesn't react to anything I want it to do, sometimes when a video starts it just jumps straight to the end and asks me if I want to watch it again.

    ......Breathe......

    It just plain irritates me. Maybe it's just me though. Although, I dont get these problems with any other video type sites.

    1 year, 7 months ago by SteveRowlands

  • vodaclone

    And why don't they have a mobile friendly site with 3gp files / RTSP streaming?

    1 year, 7 months ago by vodaclone

  • whatleydude

    I thought they had their mobile proposition sorted.. Obviously not. Maybe they took it offline. It was working..

    1 year, 7 months ago by whatleydude

  • whatleydude

    You're watching my videos again aren't you? ;)

    1 year, 7 months ago by whatleydude

  • SteveRowlands

    @whatleydude I cant even contemplate watching your 3 videos right now.... because I hate Qik so much.

    If I did, my head would explode with irritation.

    Maybe I'll watch them this afternoon when a few cups of tea have kicked in.....

    1 year, 7 months ago by SteveRowlands

  • whatleydude

    I find they load/play better in IE.

    1 year, 7 months ago by whatleydude

  • adonisdemon

    @SteveRowlands: I get the same problems, or used to. Seemed to have solved itself. I'm thinking it's a bandwidth issue.

    1 year, 7 months ago by adonisdemon

  • steves71

    @steverowlands does qik even buffer properly, cant say ive ever noticed it does. Usually when watching a streaming vid ill pause it until its about 25% downloaded then start to watch it. With qik not having a progress bar of how much has been buffered you cant tell. Ill pause it for a minute, start to play and it continues in the same jerky style it was before.

    1 year, 7 months ago by steves71

  • steves71

    i dont know what kind of connection we have here at work but i downloaded the mtr podcast this mornin at about 650kb/sec yet trying to watch the 3g qik video on smstextnews was a nightmare.

    1 year, 7 months ago by steves71

  • SteveRowlands

    Glad it's not just me suffering problems then.

    I have just tried it in IE, and while it definitely is better, it's still not what I would call 'decent'

    1 year, 7 months ago by SteveRowlands

  • sxoop

    @steverowlands "cant even contemplate watching your 3 videos right now.... because I hate Qik so much.If I did, my head would explode with irritation." Heheh. Glad I'm not the only one who feels like that. Qik wouldn't be so bad if it didn't pollute twitter so much.

    1 year, 7 months ago by sxoop

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