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It is not a YouTube issue, it is a Chrome issue. I have built a fairly sophisticated html5 player, and Chrome's buffering/caching strategy is just irritating relative to Flash/Safari/IE9. Also Chrome is just not as good a seeking as Safari/IE9.

My player is designed for language learning, so the users are constantly seeking: http://bit.ly/z9J8Cc

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Your link isn't working for me. I'll test out some other browsers shortly. I'm surprised that Google wouldn't optimise the HTML5 player to fit YouTube considering they own both products.

I think they think they have optimized it. Chrome uses much less bandwidth for a partial play than the other browsers.

You're right, it must be a Chrome issue. I just clicked your link and it worked this time the video is having the same jittery playback I experience on YouTube's HTML5 player.

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