Reviews of SpeedBit Video Accelerator

1. 
   jake47

   Reviewing 3.1.5.7 (Oct 6, 2011)

   Dont bother with this it screwed up my laptop.I installed it it didnt work i lost my internet connection on my laptop.It was a pain to uninstall as well.
2. 
   dude2011

   Reviewing 3.1.5.7 (Feb 27, 2011)

   Don't waste your time downloading this garbage. After I downloaded it, I couldn't get connected to the internet, I couldn't watch most of my DVDs anymore, and it caused my system to crash. I would rather wait a long time for videos to buffer than have this useless trash in my computer. SpeedBit got lucky that the lowest rating I could give it was a one, otherwise it would've got a -5 like it deserves.
3. 
   Snicker0076

   Reviewing 3.1.5.7 (Feb 3, 2011)

   Was great, No adware,malware and did as promised.
   Did have a problem when trying to change what you were watching (kept downloading the old stream) to another video.
   Recent update has destroyed its effectiveness and had to be removed to ensure system stability.
   Problems were-
   It was unable to connect most of the time.
   When it did connect it was saying there was an update.
   When it tried to open Firefox to update, Firefox developed a bug that prevented it from opening web pages.
   - Bad Jojo.
   Pity as it WAS a great little program
4. 
   madmike

   Reviewing 3.0.9.9 (Sep 10, 2009)

   Installed this and boom the videos on youtube are loading like lightning,. excellent product:))
5. 
   Zer0 Voltage

   Reviewing 2.2.4.6 (Jul 7, 2008)

   Count me as another who only gets a BSoD system crash with this. Specifically, a stop 8E on sbbotdi.sys - or even more specifically:
   
   STOP: 0x0000008E (0xC0000005,0xA78B6AB6,0xA753E9D0,0x00000000)
   
   sbbotdi.sys - Address A78B6AB6 base at A78B4000, DateStamp 475bb24b
   
   XP SP3 with a 2.8 GHz Intel P4 and 1 Gig RAM.
   
   Happened at the end of the install and after every subsequent reboot. Had to uninstall it in Safe Mode to fix the system.
   
   This is a real bummer since I do quite a lot of video streaming from some of the sites this supports and I was hoping it might help with some of the slower ones (like Dailymotion, tudou, and sometimes Veoh).
   
   Normally I'd give it a 1 after this, but since it is openly stated as potentially unstable beta code and since the concept is excellent and since it works well for others, I'll do an Emeril and bump it up a notch to 2. ;-)
   
   I hope this bug gets resolved and I can try the program someday. For now I'll try submitting a report through their support link since their "Discuss" link doesn't actually point to a discussion...
   
   July 12 Update:
   
   On July 8, I reported the crash details through the support form here:
   
   http://www.videoaccelerator.com/support/
   
   and to my surprise I received a response about 12 hours later asking me to submit a memory dump for analysis (which I did that same day - through a service they have for uploading large files).
   
   I haven't heard back since submitting the dump, but hopefully someone will eventually look at it. I did see that they released a new beta version (2.2.4.9) on July 10, but it still crashes on my system - so I assume that release coming so soon after my report was just coincidence.
   
   If they ever get back to me and/or fix the problem, I'll update this review (or post a new one). In the meantime, I would advise anyone else seeing blue-screen crashes to submit a report through the support form I linked to above. More reports might increase the possibility for a fix.

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