The other day I was going at it with a friend of mine who ones an iPhone 4 (I got Evo 2.2). Youtube app let me down.
When you pause a video the downloading bar also pauses. It makes you think it also paused the download of the video to cache. His iPhone 4 showed the video pause but still downloading. He scored a victory .
After further review I noticed that video does continue downloading to cache while paused but the bar stops displaying the download. After you click the play button again one can see where the download is actually gone to in the bar.
I was wondering if this is only on my Evo of is it a bug of the app. Anyone else has this issue???
weehooherod said:
We all have this, its just the application. I personally think the YouTube application is trash. If you ever try to rewind then the app throws away all the cache of the video and makes you redownload it and the subscriptions feature is confusing and doesn't just show new unwatched videos like it should.
Using YouTube's mobile site is actually better, I hope some work will go into the YouTube app though.
Edit: I'm using CM6 8/24 nightly with the latest 8/17 gApps package.
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Yeah the New Youtube app is junk.. I hate not being able to see certain channels by default, the TP2 youtube app was soo much better.
When My friend shows me his IPhone 4 youtube app, I say to him.. is your Optimized for HD? he was like ... umm.. should be..... The picture turned out amazing on my evo.. he was still trying to do HD...
Videos don't look as good thru the browser. Blame it on flash. The app displays the hq videos much better.
energizer1389 said:
Videos don't look as good thru the browser. Blame it on flash. The app displays the hq videos much better.
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Mine never goes through flash when I go to the site. I hit the HQ button and it uses some streaming video player to actually play the video, not sure exactly what app, but its really bare bones. I get decent quality.
Yeah the YouTube player sucks. Wonder why there isnt a better YouTube player or more to choose from.
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So I was trying to view videos on youtube from my Vibrant and the quality was so poor I had to give it up.
I tried about 15 different videos with the same result in quality
Is there a way to fix this issue ?
Try hitting menu and then there should be an option to watch in high quality.
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Try hitting menu and then there should be an option to watch in high quality.
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What he said. Over 3g I'd defaults to low quality YouTube. That issue is fixed in 2.2 where you could always force HQ over 3g. But as is, hit menu, then watch in high quality.
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try this, it's the newer version of youtube than the vibrants. theres an option where you can have HQ as a default.
Thanks man!
Thanks for the link, Aeson! It is nice to have everything looking much better when watching YouTube vids. Appreciate it!
dharmaboy1 said:
Thanks for the link, Aeson! It is nice to have everything looking much better when watching YouTube vids. Appreciate it!
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no problem!
Thanks guys really helped out....
One other problem I have is when searching for youtube videos over the net, I choose a video and lets say its a youtube video it will not play.
I receive a error message and video screen closes and reverts me back to web page.
Any ideas ?
leechdweler said:
Thanks guys really helped out....
One other problem I have is when searching for youtube videos over the net, I choose a video and lets say its a youtube video it will not play.
I receive a error message and video screen closes and reverts me back to web page.
Any ideas ?
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What does the error message say?
I have a big problem with the youtube app, and I tried the updated APK it didn't change anything.
When ever try to sign in to my account it freezes.
Anyone else have this problem?
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What does the error message say?
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wtf. its working now ??? I have no idea what happened but it seems to play now. will keep trying to see if i get the error message again.
aeson said:
try this, it's the newer version of youtube than the vibrants. theres an option where you can have HQ as a default.
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After install the sign in screen just kept popping up over and over again. Is there a different youtube.apk to try?
yall complain about bad quality videos but be happy you don't have to deal with iphone users issues because they can't even choose to watch videos in high quality unless they have wifi or jail-broken their phone. ATT is terrible with trying to decrease data usage smh
No youtube HD apparently.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2367811,00.asp
"One painful omission is YouTube HQ, which Sprint made such a big deal about when they introduced the EVO. On the Epic, the YouTube app is unwatchable; it's a hideous mush of blocky compression. I don't understand why Sprint didn't give the Epic the same sharp YouTube video quality that the EVO has."
Port please?
kennethlongshaw said:
No youtube HD apparently.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2367811,00.asp
"One painful omission is YouTube HQ, which Sprint made such a big deal about when they introduced the EVO. On the Epic, the YouTube app is unwatchable; it's a hideous mush of blocky compression. I don't understand why Sprint didn't give the Epic the same sharp YouTube video quality that the EVO has."
Port please?
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You can click menu and watch in high quality, problem solved.
http://androidforums.com/1387931-post8.html
FYI: that android link goes to the post with a direct download to an .apk file that replaces your current youtube with the requested youtube hq. you still need to select high quality but it comes in the form of a button directly on the screen rather than going into the menu. worked like a champ and worth the quick fix.
Thank you for the YoutubeHD link! I was missing this version from Froyo! Much easier for the button to be on screen rather than hidden in the menu.
Thanks for the link!
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Great, I switched to the youtube HQ app and now playback stutters in HQ mode. The old app played HQ much smoother. I was only looking to have the HQ setting be permanent, but I'd rather deal with having to set it manually than the crap I'm getting now
edit: nm, seems to have fixed itself! That always happens after I ask in public how to fix something..
double edit: or rather, it seems to be one video in particular that plays stuttery.. oh well, whatever..
Does this app work for a non-rooted Epic?
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Does this app work for a non-rooted Epic?
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Yea, I can confirm that it works on my non-rooted epic.
I know the iPad will block lots of content, for no reason?
I accidentally discovered this after watching a Vevo video on my laptop but then when I tried searching for the same video on the iPad, it wouldn't even show up in the results.
Don't have my Xoom yet to test out.
Nope the android youtube app for honeycomb and froyo both have Vevo videos. I haven't seen any mobile blocked videos like I used to on my phone six months ago.
I was not aware of blocked content on the iPad, but no, by the looks of the the Xoom has everything youtube normally would.
I may have done something wrong, though I don't know how I could have, but "I Need a Doctor" by Dr. Dre from his VEVO channel would not play/load. Said it could not be loaded on mobile.
I tried this video on the Best Buy demo when I went to look at it. I was trying to think of a HD video I could play to try and see how it displayed. Since I just watched it previously, I knew it had 720p.
Can anyone play it on their xoom?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA770wpLX-Q
Vevo has it's own app, they don't show up in the normal android app, I don't think they ever did. Possibly different licensing issues at play here.
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The Vevo app works fine on my Xoom..... till i go to play any video
If anyone else has Vevo working on their Xoom, Please let me know.
This may not help. But the VEVO app works on the XOOM. I watched some videos on it yesterday. Just remember to press HQ on each video or it looks like ****.
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Vevo has it's own app, they don't show up in the normal android app, I don't think they ever did. Possibly different licensing issues at play here.
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This is it. Google has some licensing agreements that prevent playback of videos on Mobile phones, but it's not bulletproof.
If you can't find it using the Youtube app, just go to youtube.com in the browser and you can view the video natively there.
With above.
Uploaders can specify wether they want to allow mobile devices to be able to search/view the video, at least with the Youtube app.
Bonuman said:
With above.
Uploaders can specify wether they want to allow mobile devices to be able to search/view the video, at least with the Youtube app.
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Soooper annoying. At least with VEVO app you can view music videos that were previously unavailable.
I recall with the EVO, the YouTube app blocked even more content.
VEVO will crash repeatedly. I had to use spare parts and turn off the Compatibility mode and now vevo works great.
so i just did a pretty badass lagtest of the S2, pulled up 20 tabs, and played a video on all 20 tabs. not even the slightest hiccup, pinchzooming as smooth as a picture, no lag whatso ever, as smooth as going to google.com
had some stuff running in the background too, i didnt set up for this video at all.. original out of box stock rom.. totally unstoppable!
check out the video by yours truely~
Use the movie code from the YouTube URL in your browser. For example, for: http://youtube.com/watch?v=iox1hzW_ODE use: [youtube]iox1hzW_ODE[/youtube_] -- without the _
EDIT: Hahahha, funny test!
One Piece FTW!
xd haha
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hmm. Thats one certified badass !~!
For sure, the CPU is a beast, if nothing more.
This guy literally eats flash for its breakfast and probably some for dinner too.
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hmm. Thats one certified badass !~!
For sure, the CPU is a beast, if nothing more.
This guy literally eats flash for its breakfast and probably some for dinner too.
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I would not say that at all. It still cant play bbc HD, or bbc standard def flash without skipping.
Not impressed.
Dannyboyni said:
I would not say that at all. It still cant play bbc HD, or bbc standard def flash without skipping.
Not impressed.
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To be fair that's probably more to do with BBC's shoddy application than it is flash or the phone. How else do you explain that other flash streaming works perfectly?
Yea , and it cant run crysis :s
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Intratech said:
To be fair that's probably more to do with BBC's shoddy application than it is flash or the phone. How else do you explain that other flash streaming works perfectly?
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Im not talking about the application, I mean the bbc website watching using standard flash player.
Dannyboyni said:
Im not talking about the application, I mean the bbc website watching using standard flash player.
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I know what you mean. The beeb uses some bull**** which meant that the iplayer was not available to us Linux users for a long time even though we have flash capable browsers that played everything else.
Has anyone tried watching a 1080p flash video from the browser? Was it smooth or choppy?
Smooth as butter. I watched a ton of 1080p videos off YouTube and megavideo.
Killer Bee said:
Has anyone tried watching a 1080p flash video from the browser? Was it smooth or choppy?
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Buddy u keep trying to hold this over the sgs2 head. If every flash based site/video runs perfectly, it has to be something with BBC right? Don't b a b.
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I would not say that at all. It still cant play bbc HD, or bbc standard def flash without skipping.
Not impressed.
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Bbc iplayer dont even work that well on ps3 with a good wifi connectiob so i ainbt that worried. Bbc news app is slow too compared to skys one, thay just make **** apps and web sites
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Has anyone tried watching a 1080p flash video from the browser? Was it smooth or choppy?
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those were ALL 1080p.
loljk, idk maybe i should make a video of how many 1080p videos i can get and itll still be smooth.. wonder how many i would get oo
i wanna make a post or something where its just a whole page of embedded videos, so i dont have to do tabs, anyone got a forum they dont mind spamming with videos? ill make a cool video out of it!
That's because the ****heads at the BBC knows they'll be getting money from us every year regardless of the **** they produce. The TV licensing scheme is pure bull****, they should work for their keep like every other station.
@Killer Bee "Has anyone tried watching a 1080p flash video from the browser? Was it smooth or choppy?"
Very VERY SMOOTH. This was one of the first things I did when I got my first look at CPW.
I used to download 720p HD Videos from Tubemate for my SGS.
Now I don't need to download anymore. 1080p HD videos streaming straight from my SGS II >
BEST PHONE EVER
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dk206 said:
Very VERY SMOOTH. This was one of the first things I did when I got my first look at CPW.
I used to download 720p HD Videos from Tubemate for my SGS.
Now I don't need to download anymore. 1080p HD videos streaming straight from my SGS II
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How do u watch 1080p on YouTube ? Im having difficulties to change the video from 480p to 720p or 1080p. Help ?
dk206 said:
@Killer Bee "Has anyone tried watching a 1080p flash video from the browser? Was it smooth or choppy?"
Very VERY SMOOTH. This was one of the first things I did when I got my first look at CPW.
I used to download 720p HD Videos from Tubemate for my SGS.
Now I don't need to download anymore. 1080p HD videos streaming straight from my SGS II >
BEST PHONE EVER
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i downloaded a 1080p on tubemate, after changing connections to 6, to see how fast i could dl @. and 1080p videos are shrunken, theyre not fullscreen, are you getting this too?
WagTwo said:
How do u watch 1080p on YouTube ? Im having difficulties to change the video from 480p to 720p or 1080p. Help ?
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are you watching them in desktop mode? were watching them from the webbrowser, not the app, and having desktop mode on, then click 1080p right where you normally see it on the website from your computer
Hey guys I'm not sure if you've noticed but with the latest YouTube app update with the new ui, it seems the video quality is streaming in HD but at 720p. I can definitely tell just by watching a video, it's quite jaggy then reversing to the older app it's back to how it should be.
Does anyone else have this problem? I really like the new ui and it's features especially how you are scrolling around, click a video and when you finish and go back it's exactly where you were scrolling to. Unlike the old version where when you finish and go back it's suddenly way up on the list and you've lost where you're up to!
Koguchi9 said:
Hey guys I'm not sure if you've noticed but with the latest YouTube app update with the new ui, it seems the video quality is streaming in HD but at 720p. I can definitely tell just by watching a video, it's quite jaggy then reversing to the older app it's back to how it should be.
Does anyone else have this problem? I really like the new ui and it's features especially how you are scrolling around, click a video and when you finish and go back it's exactly where you were scrolling to. Unlike the old version where when you finish and go back it's suddenly way up on the list and you've lost where you're up to!
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Well, you're not the only one. I love the new YouTube app in that you're able to search for new videos while the current video is playing, but the video (even fullscreen) looks like ****e!!..particularly on the Nexus 10 with such an awesome display resolution.
I don't know what the deal is, but you're not alone.
nalf38 said:
Well, you're not the only one. I love the new YouTube app in that you're able to search for new videos while the current video is playing, but the video (even fullscreen) looks like ****e!!..particularly on the Nexus 10 with such an awesome display resolution.
I don't know what the deal is, but you're not alone.
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Considering we have 4K video on YouTube, this is a disgrace. We should be able to stream EVERY quality, not only standard, 720P or 1080P.