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did NUMEROUS tests....and got the following results
xoom --hdmi--hdtv =
---great performance on NON maximized youtube videos both HQ and non HQ
---good performance on maximized LOWQUALITY video (HQ OFF..which is absolutely disgusting to see though)
---SEVEREEEE problems with HQ ON on FULL size (either sound is of and video is retarded or says PROBLEM PLAYING VIDEO, TAP TO RESTART
Suggestions??
I'm finding that the youtube app as a whole is a little buggy. At one point while using it with the hdmi my whole tablet restarted. Everything else played fine using hdmi. The youtube app has forced closed or just plain quit on its own many times even when not using hdmi.
How about other videos apps? Do they work?
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I had the exact same thing happen to me as onehitter; my Xoom rebooted when I hit HQ.
I used RockPlayer to test some episodes of The Office that I've got, along with an AVI of Year One, both worked fine.
I tested a few games, they all looked spectacular. See attached - Mario never looked so good.
Youtube seemed to work completely fine when I was playing it through the HDMI, even in HQ. However, when I was done I was playing with the tablet and long pressed on the homescreen to change a widget and it just completely powered down my Xoom. I don't know the exact cause but it was almost immediately after playing with Youtube.
khov07 said:
I had the exact same thing happen to me as onehitter; my Xoom rebooted when I hit HQ.
I used RockPlayer to test some episodes of The Office that I've got, along with an AVI of Year One, both worked fine.
I tested a few games, they all looked spectacular. See attached - Mario never looked so good.
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How did you get full-HDMI out? I thought it was only with Gallery and Video playback? I have a microHDMI->HDMI cable that I've been waiting to try out
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How did you get full-HDMI out? I thought it was only with Gallery and Video playback? I have a microHDMI->HDMI cable that I've been waiting to try out
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It has full 720p mirroring. It cuts off the menu bar at the bottom.
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So I loaded up the YouTube app and played a video, it was on HQ by default. Within the App and not Full-Screen the video played just fine. But as said, as soon as I went to full screen the Xoom turned itself off.
I'm sure it's just a software glitch (one of a few I've run into so far) and it will be fixed in an update.
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It has full 720p mirroring. It cuts off the menu bar at the bottom.
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Is that done by simply plugging in the HDMI cable and switching your TV over to that mode? It'll just pop up?
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Is that done by simply plugging in the HDMI cable and switching your TV over to that mode? It'll just pop up?
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I had to re-start my Xoom with the cable plugged in to get it work the first time. It was pretty cool (and a little startling) to see the Honeycomb start-up animation just appear on a 60" screen.
Is anyone else getting weird youtube playback on the A500? A lot of times the video will just stop and won't load up anymore about halfway through playback-
I have had this problem too, so I make sue its standard def and it works out OK from there. I believe an update will fix this issue which is supposed to come from Acer in June.
I have experienced major buffering times. Kind of annoying!!!!! Hope that with the 3.1 update this gets fixed.!!!!!!!!
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This has been happening just recently on my tab, but also my DroidX when doing HD. Could be from another issue. Day I bought my tab it did videos just great.
* For detail; My DroidX is running on Gingerbread!
When I watch a Youtube video on the A500 it seems to be a 50/50 chance it will stop running the videostream after a few secs, while the audio stream happily plays away. When watching the same videos with my Archos 10.1 there is no issue.
Same here
Sorry to dig up an old thread, but I only recently started having this issue as well. It was well after the OTA update, but up until not too long ago mine started randomly stopping between 25% and 75% through HD youtube videos. Hopefully the update fixes it. My Captivate started getting much more picky about playing (SD of course) videos over 3g. Maybe its something on youtube's end as well? I've seen in over places that a number of people have been having some trouble with youtube keeping up as of late.
One (kind of) fix that I've found is that videos sometimes play better through the browser on the tab... Food for thought.
using my friends tab the past week and having all kinds of flash issues.
YouTube video and audio are pretty much never in sync. Other flash based sites just freeze after a few seconds. Is this normal?
Use dolphin beta for pad.works well for me
is it just the Acer?
The beta browser is an improvement, but there are still some issues. This is frustrating I am guessing its a software not hardware issue?
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is it just the Acer?
The beta browser is an improvement, but there are still some issues. This is frustrating I am guessing its a software not hardware issue?
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YouTube app on samsung's new pad (tegra2) works very well.so its not a hardware issue.its ****ty Acer coding problem.
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Hey guys
I bought a xoom a couple days ago here in Canada, and Im updated to 3.1 [latest official update here].
I find that some videos in youtube cause various screen distortions, almost like audio noise is being displayed on the screen. So far this only happens in youtube. I've seen this happen across the video player area, and I've also seen it happen elsewhere on the screen.
If its just the app, then its no problem. But I worry that this is something else and may be a hardware issue so I want to get it taken care of before the 14 day return period. Any ideas?
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Hey guys
I bought a xoom a couple days ago here in Canada, and Im updated to 3.1 [latest official update here].
I find that some videos in youtube cause various screen distortions, almost like audio noise is being displayed on the screen. So far this only happens in youtube. I've seen this happen across the video player area, and I've also seen it happen elsewhere on the screen.
If its just the app, then its no problem. But I worry that this is something else and may be a hardware issue so I want to get it taken care of before the 14 day return period. Any ideas?
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I would test every app with audio and video to see if it really is only the YouTube app. Also try YouTube via the browser. I never use the app, so I can't give much feedback there (no pun intended).
I have downloaded a bunch of players and haven't seen the behavior with any of them,
but I'm still worried. And uncertain.
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I have the same issues sometimes with my phone.
I think YouTube has good days and bad days with streaming...especially in HD.
I could be wrong...but I dont think its something to worry about.
Hi guys,
So whenever I'm watching a video with the YouTube app in HD it constantly stop play, loads, then plays,then loads then play.....you get the idea. At first I though it was a bandwidth issue but if I'm on other WiFi connections that I know are faster than mine I have the same issue. If I take it off of HD mode it runs fine. Has anyone else experienced this and is there a known fix for it? Or is this maybe a WiFi hardware issue with the N10? It sucks not being able to watch YouTube videos on my N10. Thanks for the feedback guys!
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What does the SpeedTest app report on your tablet?
9 down 2 up
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My youtube locks up about 2 minutes into a video. Comcast 20+ down/20+ up. uninstalled all updates and reapplied.
stock, locked and up-to-date.
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ya mine just keeps trying to load every like 30 seconds, its horrible. Issue only happens in HD.
To be honest, I'd be more willing to peg this issue (which I've seen as well from time to time) to the Nexus 10's rather underwhelming Wi-Fi performance. It's the one thing about Android that always really bugs me-- of all the devices I've owned, the iPad/iPod Touch (gifted that one though to my roommate) have had the fewest issues with Wi-Fi. And it's bizarre. There's no reason it should happen, but I've seen the gauntlet of problems (including everyone's favorite "Avoiding poor connection").
installed smarttube app from play store and no issue withe the same video. no problems with skype video. only youtube - even just 10 feet from router with every other app rocking it.
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mygti02 said:
Hi guys,
So whenever I'm watching a video with the YouTube app in HD it constantly stop play, loads, then plays,then loads then play.....you get the idea. At first I though it was a bandwidth issue but if I'm on other WiFi connections that I know are faster than mine I have the same issue. If I take it off of HD mode it runs fine. Has anyone else experienced this and is there a known fix for it? Or is this maybe a WiFi hardware issue with the N10? It sucks not being able to watch YouTube videos on my N10. Thanks for the feedback guys!
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It's probably partly because of your connection speed and partly because of the way buffering works on the native Android app, which seems badly done.
Generally speaking, the native Youtube app for Android is pretty badly done. It doesn't let you choose the exact resolution you want like on the Flash player, ie 360p, 480p, 720p, or 1080p, only HD or not. It will automatically start downloading in HD if it thinks your connection is fast enough and won't let you switch to non-HD until after it has buffered in HD and starts playing a bit. It doesn't let you order a channel's videos by popularity, though you can get around that by going to the website, ordering by popularity, and then clicking on the videos from there. It will buffer a video, but if you switch to another app and then come back, it will often randomly lose that buffering, meaning you have to wait while it downloads all over again.
It is amazing how bad this app is after so many years of being out.
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It's probably partly because of your connection speed and partly because of the way buffering works on the native Android app, which seems badly done.
Generally speaking, the native Youtube app for Android is pretty badly done. It doesn't let you choose the exact resolution you want like on the Flash player, ie 360p, 480p, 720p, or 1080p, only HD or not. It will automatically start downloading in HD if it thinks your connection is fast enough and won't let you switch to non-HD until after it has buffered in HD and starts playing a bit. It doesn't let you order a channel's videos by popularity, though you can get around that by going to the website, ordering by popularity, and then clicking on the videos from there. It will buffer a video, but if you switch to another app and then come back, it will often randomly lose that buffering, meaning you have to wait while it downloads all over again.
It is amazing how bad this app is after so many years of being out.
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By far and away though, the biggest annoyance for me (after the ones you listed) was introduced more recently. Why, oh why, Google, would you not let me disable watch suggestions? They never work, especially with my subscriptions!
joakim_one said:
It's probably partly because of your connection speed and partly because of the way buffering works on the native Android app, which seems badly done.
Generally speaking, the native Youtube app for Android is pretty badly done. It doesn't let you choose the exact resolution you want like on the Flash player, ie 360p, 480p, 720p, or 1080p, only HD or not. It will automatically start downloading in HD if it thinks your connection is fast enough and won't let you switch to non-HD until after it has buffered in HD and starts playing a bit. It doesn't let you order a channel's videos by popularity, though you can get around that by going to the website, ordering by popularity, and then clicking on the videos from there. It will buffer a video, but if you switch to another app and then come back, it will often randomly lose that buffering, meaning you have to wait while it downloads all over again.
It is amazing how bad this app is after so many years of being out.
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Awesome explanation! Thank you.....yes, it to drives Mr nuts that after so many years this app is still so buggy. Patience can only go so far .
Well at least I know now that I'm not the only one with these issues. Thanks again!
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Sometimes I know the connection is okay, but YouTube just likes to be a jerk. It happens to me occasionally, but something I've dealt with.
Generally, I download the YouTube video and watch it (or watch it on my train ride later!). Usually those kind of apps are helpful even if you have a slow connection so you don't get that stuttering when trying to watch a video.
I've heard some good things about this YouTube Downloading app. Personally, I haven't tried it; I use TubeMate from the amazon app-store.
In a different way, this should help.
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Sometimes I know the connection is okay, but YouTube just likes to be a jerk. It happens to me occasionally, but something I've dealt with.
Generally, I download the YouTube video and watch it (or watch it on my train ride later!). Usually those kind of apps are helpful even if you have a slow connection so you don't get that stuttering when trying to watch a video.
I've heard some good things about this YouTube Downloading app. Personally, I haven't tried it; I use TubeMate from the amazon app-store.
In a different way, this should help.
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Thank you for the suggestions, ill give them a shot! cheers!
I'm getting some pretty significant stuttering on YouTube when playing hd videos. It couldn't be my wifi because hd 1080p movies on Netflix play smoothly.
Anyone else having this issue?
siciliano777 said:
I'm getting some pretty significant stuttering on YouTube when playing hd videos. It couldn't be my wifi because hd 1080p movies on Netflix play smoothly.
Anyone else having this issue?
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Im having lag on everything Internet related. And it's pissing me off . All day no 4glte signal. Now I'm home and my wifi is so flipping slow it's driving me nuts. I paid full price for this awesome phone and my galaxy s3 had a crazy good signal anywhere. Sorry had to vent a little
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Im having lag on everything Internet related. And it's pissing me off . All day no 4glte signal. Now I'm home and my wifi is so flipping slow it's driving me nuts. I paid full price for this awesome phone and my galaxy s3 had a crazy good signal anywhere. Sorry had to vent a little
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This is crazy I took my sim card out and just running wifi and my phone for once is crazy fast. You might try it.
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Well apparently it's the YouTube app...just read the comments on Google play for this device. =/ it's a shame, I'm starting to realize more and more the software hasn't caught up with the hardware in this beast.
None of you watch videos on YouTube??
I've been using the stock browser for YouTube.... not full HD results but at least it plays without jittering and pausing to buffer all the damn time... buffer stays way out ahead of video and plays like a champ.
Just a temporary solution until fixes for apps start coming around...
b00mb00mchuck said:
I've been using the stock browser for YouTube.... not full HD results but at least it plays without jittering and pausing to buffer all the damn time... buffer stays way out ahead of video and plays like a champ.
Just a temporary solution until fixes for apps start coming around...
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Same. I can confirm that YT through the browser is very smooth, but like you said it's not really HD, just "HQ", which is so damn stupid. Why can't they figure out a way to enable HD through the browser?
Just an FYI. I was having the same issue as you. I un-installed all of the updates for the YouTube app, and set it to not auto update.
Did this a week ago and its been running perfect ever since.
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I tried that but for some reason hd videos still stutter for me. Ugh.
I use the Youtube app all the time, it never buffers. Been awhile since I've had a device like that. I'm wondering if this phone has MIMO.
My $600 Sony Tablet buffers in the same spot.
You bring up an excellent post!
When I got my note 3 for $700 no contract a month ago, I was on the verge of returning it the very next day because no matter which youtube app version in the store I was using, it would stutter and drop frames but not all the time, just every so seconds it would drop frames or stutter like. It drove me nuts because this beast of a phone should not hiccup on youtube videos 1080p or not. My iPad 3 doesn't even have this problem at all.
I also installed flash using the digital cookies version of the AOSP browser and you won't believe it but full screen youtube videos do not stutter or drop frames!! This is compared to the stock youtube app!
So I have to say it has to be typical android BS where the app is just not optimized or buggy as F as usual. Netflix doesn't seem to drop frames like the youtube app - but watching anything .mp4 online streamed will do this occasional frame drop "lag" issue. Really pathetic if you ask me how this andreno 330 gpu can't handle a youtube video!
Using even the MX Player app (using SW, HW, HW+ accelerations), it would still drop frames/stutter! Unbelievable. So it has to be something to do with this phone's hardware drivers. God knows how long it will take samsuck to fix this or even acknowledge this. Google ain't gonna touch it because they are focused on kitkat BS which I don't give a damn about considering it has nothing compared to Samsung's S-Pen and all the galaxy note features.
I had the same problem but cleared cache partition through recovery and don't have the issue anymore. Maybe you can try that
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I had the same problem but cleared cache partition through recovery and don't have the issue anymore. Maybe you can try that
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Nope - deleting/formatting the cache partition does nothing. A full wipe does nothing either. Even removing the updates and restoring stock youtube will help ALOT but the drop frames/stuttering is still present in the youtube app. Go load up some VEVO music videos in HD and you'll see what I mean. Android sucks; loaded up the same videos with the same ads on an iPad(3)/(4) and ZERO stuttering/dropping frames. Android just can't do anything smoothly!
I have to agree with you. I can say it's DEF not the phone itself - the hardware is godly. It's ****ty android and/or the YT app simply isn't optimized yet for this brand new hardware.
The absolute concrete evidence came for me when I streamed a full 1080p VERY VERY high bitrate movie from my computer with ES file explorer (best file explorer btw). I purposely picked the movie with the highest bitrate, the dark knight, in my case. The video played smooth as melted butter.
Just to be sure, I also moved the file to my phone, because with streaming it can be argued that the host machine, my computer in this case, does all the grunt work. It still played like butter.
So this is just another classic case of software lagging behind the hardware...Google is notorious for this.
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Nope - deleting/formatting the cache partition does nothing. A full wipe does nothing either. Even removing the updates and restoring stock youtube will help ALOT but the drop frames/stuttering is still present in the youtube app. Go load up some VEVO music videos in HD and you'll see what I mean. Android sucks; loaded up the same videos with the same ads on an iPad(3)/(4) and ZERO stuttering/dropping frames. Android just can't do anything smoothly!
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Well I tried it and I still have absolutely no lag or stuttering when I did the same video that I had issues with before, in my house again with my slow a$$ Internet (65mbps) and no problems since I cleared my partition cache through recovery. Sorry that it hasn't worked for you, but it did an amazing job for me because I had exactly the issues you had. Couldn't watch one video completely through.
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