AsK HN: Why do Kickstarter videos take so long to load?

2 points by rolandal 14y ago ↗ HN

When visiting different Kickstarter pages, why is it that their videos take so long to load? What backend video system are they using that creates this long of a buffering problem?

I'm asking because I'm looking to avoid these sort of problems with my project (curating custom band videos on a page).

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[dead] cancelbubble 14y ago ↗

I've started a Kickstarter to make the videos download faster.

ScottWhigham 14y ago ↗

Do you have a link to a page that loads slow? I'm not familiar with too many of the KS projects but, by memory, I don't recall any having slow videos.

Also, why ask us instead of asking them?