Video playback in Safari iOS 8 is horrible now

Any videos I play through websites in Safari all are horrible load times in the player now. A play button appears on screen, I wait some more, and THEN the video plays. This is the same wether on LTE or WIFI.
Sometimes video skips around when playing, and unlike before in iOS 7, I do not see how much of the video has 'loaded' anymore. Overall very horrible experience  watching any videos through Safari (this includes YouTube's mobile website).

johnmapley wrote:
I've restored, but don't see anything else I can try. These problems (or vast majority thereof, e.g. video seeking problems) occur across every iOS device I own or have ever used that runs iOS 8. Are you unable to reproduce them? I'd be very interested to hear if not.
The only thing I've noticed is occasionally is the video screen will not close when pressing Done. I then have to force close Safari. As for poor video quality I haven't experienced that,

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