We recently migrated our video library from Vimeo to Gumlet and have noticed a significant difference in how quickly Auto quality responds to a fast internet connection.

On a 1 Gbps connection, Gumlet videos regularly start at 360p, move up to 720p, and can remain at 720p for some time even though a 1080p version is available.

For comparison, our remaining Vimeo videos are also set to Auto. On exactly the same connection, Vimeo detects the available bandwidth very quickly and moves to 1080p almost immediately, resulting in a noticeably sharper picture much sooner.

I am aware of the start_high_res=true option, but I don’t want to force the highest resolution from the start because some of our members will be using slower connections and this could potentially cause unnecessary initial buffering.

It would be great if Gumlet’s Auto adaptive quality selection could respond more quickly to high-bandwidth connections, moving to 1080p sooner when the connection can clearly support it, while retaining the existing adaptive behaviour for viewers on slower connections.