Hello all. I have had my S4 or a week now and am loving it. So superior to the Galaxy S3. But I have noticed a small issue. When playing videos on some apps like youtube, the video will studder alot. No this is not a buffering issue and i have concluded that. And it seems that when playing videos from the youtube site on internet, the sound will kinda lag sometimes as well. This doesn't happen on all video apps so i don't think it's a hardware issue. My S4 is not rooted and is fully stock. Can anyone help me??
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has anyone else noticed choppy video playback? running stock rom btw. i have a few movies, all .avi format, and any videos i play on the phone, the audio is miles ahead on the video. my gf has the samsung galaxy 4g and those same files run flawlessly and beautifully on hers. Any ideas on fixing it?
Buy a galaxy 4g j/k I havent had that problem. Try killing task in background and use Cache Cleaner if you are rooted.
Its only me or youtube videos dont play nice. For example Foo fighters-walk video stutters like mad. And many others random videos. Also camera recording its not smooth as should be. There are many frame drops and stuttering.
Its my s4 broken or its normal this way? Im on stock mh1.
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I have noticed a disturbing trend on my new Note 3. The streaming video playback is pretty terrible with just about everything except youtube. Has anyone else experienced this or do I likely have a bad unit? Thanks.
Thimetolive said:
Hi All,
I have noticed a disturbing trend on my new Note 3. The streaming video playback is pretty terrible with just about everything except youtube. Has anyone else experienced this or do I likely have a bad unit? Thanks.
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This is sort of expected behavior as apps need to be updated to utilize the Note 3's hardware decoder otherwise it has to be decoded in software which is slower and more battery consuming. What apps and what codec is the video encoded in?
Hmmm it seems strange that poor web video playback would be expected on a device targeted toward video consumers. I have encountered this with every streaming video I have tried to play in both Chrome and the built-in browser, with the exception of Youtube videos.
Have you tired Dice Player? Watching Pacific Rim 1080p right now
Only choppy video is from YouTube. I downloaded a few 1080p movies and trailers and they run flawlessly. So I'm assuming it's the youtube app needing to be updated as well as what exothermic video apps. Mx player works fine as well as the stock player
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Has anyone else noticed this? While watching a 1440p video on youtube, after a minute or two, it will start dropping frames like crazy. Sometimes the video will stop entirely (audio still plays). I've noticed this on MKBHD and Linus Tech Tips channels. If I set the quality to 1080p (or anything lower) manually, it plays just fine. It's not a buffering issue, because the audio still plays. It seems like the phone is trying to reduce the cpu and youtube isn't capable of playing 1440p video with the reduced cpu. It never happens at the beginning of a video. I didn't have this problem on my V10, ever.
Can you give links to exact videos? I just tested on this on
https://youtu.be/hddwAIXbKZo
Looked amazing. Ran in 1440 with zero issues.
This was happening to me as well. SD820 variant. On WiFi. A restart seems to have fixed the problem...for now...hopefully.
Exynos will breeze through this. SD fail.
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Okay I can see what you're talking about now. I just watch this video. Its default was like 720. I changed it to 1440 and it froze. Sound continues video stops. I minimize the video and closed it then reopened it it stayed 1440 and ran fine.
https://youtu.be/RCgPD2sfbAQ
Not sure what's causing it but I can definitely see the problem. I don't want to have to close and reopen a video to get it to play properly.
These are two of the ones I remember it happening on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oKIo0V0omg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCgPD2sfbAQ
zathus said:
Can you give links to exact videos? I just tested on this on
https://youtu.be/hddwAIXbKZo
Looked amazing. Ran in 1440 with zero issues.
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That video may not be long enough... it happens after a minute or two on my phone, and that video is only 1:45 long.
This 1440p issue happens on my LG G4 as well. I'm getting my Exynos S7 Edge on Friday
dodgeboy said:
These are two of the ones I remember it happening on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oKIo0V0omg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCgPD2sfbAQ
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Just watched both of those on 1440p, no glitches at all. YouTube 1440 vids have been smooth as butter since my restart.
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Brava27 said:
Exynos will breeze through this. SD fail.
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Maybe not.
dodgeboy said:
Has anyone else noticed this? While watching a 1440p video on youtube, after a minute or two, it will start dropping frames like crazy. Sometimes the video will stop entirely (audio still plays). I've noticed this on MKBHD and Linus Tech Tips channels. If I set the quality to 1080p (or anything lower) manually, it plays just fine. It's not a buffering issue, because the audio still plays. It seems like the phone is trying to reduce the cpu and youtube isn't capable of playing 1440p video with the reduced cpu. It never happens at the beginning of a video. I didn't have this problem on my V10, ever.
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Happens on my V10... there are multiple threads in the V10 forums about the issue.
Are you guy's by any chance using T-Mobile? I know with their Binge On feature, they try to reduce and limit overall quality of any video feed not set up with the Binge On program. YouTube is not set up with it.
I get extremely choppy and dropped frames on 1440p. Also no 60fps option at all something is definitely wrong. My s6 edge was able to play 1440p 60fps with no issues at all.
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Are you guy's by any chance using T-Mobile? I know with their Binge On feature, they try to reduce and limit overall quality of any video feed not set up with the Binge On program. YouTube is not set up with it.
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I'm on T-Mobile, but in my case, it is not related to BingeOn. I have BingeOn disabled, and this was on WiFi. As I said in the original post, it isn't a buffering issue because the audio keeps going. Also, as others have noticed, if you minimize it and come back, the video will go for a little bit and then stop again.
https://youtu.be/iNJdPyoqt8U
Tested this ^^ and worked fine for me..I don't have any 60fps option though but it seems it plays the 60fps on the highest setting any way, just don't mention it .
Anyone try uninstalling YouTube updates and going back to the version that shipped with the phone? Since it's happening with other phones it could just be an app bug introduced with the latest update.
All videos play perfectly on my Exynos gs7 edge at 1440p
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Definitely a Youtube issue as it's happening on too many different devices. I noticed it on my wife s6 edge + but not yet on my s7 edge.
All 1440p fine on exynos
useless reply, but I followed the link for the "2K" video sample (couple minutes long) and that played without issue via the YouTube app.
After that there was a link for a 4K Video Beauty of Nature video (about 31 minutes long) and THAT locked up after a few minutes of playback. (addendum: I'm a sucker for good Nature, but holy crap is that a pretty video.)
AT&T GS7E, all current updates, playing over mobile data. SpeedTest.net reports > 50Mb/s downstream at my location so bandwidth is probably not a factor.
Firefox plays the video without issue it seems, 13 minutes in without issue. Of course I can't be sure it's playing a 1440p stream, but it looks the same to my old eyes. :^(
I've played all Youtube videos linked and have no issues. Tried many thers via the Youtube app a7 1080p and 1440p and found no issues on my Exynos S7E
It seems the S7 Edge can't handle playing YouTube videos in HD. Anything 1080p and higher it lags and stalls playing the video but you hear the sound. Does anyone else have this issue or tried it? My Note 5 works like a champ. And this is a fresh install.
Okay, so I uninstalled the youtube updates and using the one that came on the phone and it works fine. Any ideas why that would work?
It seems to be a bug affecting various Qualcomm chips, as people with the Moto X Pure and LG V10 are having the same issue, so it might just be a bug in the YouTube app or maybe a Qualcomm driver or something. We should probably report it on Google product forums if no one else has already. I turned off Smart Stay and initially I thought that fixed it for me, but then the issue started happening again so I guess it was just coincidence.
OK I just tried you tube and is updated and all 1080 streams played fine with no lag or stalling.
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markwebb said:
OK I just tried you tube and is updated and all 1080 streams played fine with no lag or stalling.
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As soon as the phone updates that app, it breaks it again. Ugh. I find it hard to believe it works for some.....As many are noticing it.
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As soon as the phone updates that app, it breaks it again. Ugh. I find it hard to believe it works for some.....As many are noticing it.
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1080p works fine for me. It's 1440p that causes the pausing on mine, although occasionally it will play a 1440p video just fine.
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1080p works fine for me. It's 1440p that causes the pausing on mine, although occasionally it will play a 1440p video just fine.
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I agree. 1080p seems to work most of the time. I had it do it twice on that....but 1440p definitely won't work.
Same problem here. I'll try uninstalling updates. Thanks
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Hi, just tried, works fine for me. Im using exynos s7 edge.
jadaress1 said:
Hi, just tried, works fine for me. Im using exynos s7 edge.
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Yeah, the bug seems to only affect Snapdragon chips. I did witness a Note 5 with Exynos reboot when trying to play a YouTube video yesterday though.
tmobild s7 edge here and definitely have the same issue 1440p youtube videos are choppy as heck and also are you guys noticing that there isnt a 60fps option as well?
what the heck with my s6 edge i could watch 1440p 60fps youtube vids with no issue at all!
Is there a Youtube app alternative thats good? Similar to how Twitter has Phoenix
Tradio said:
tmobild s7 edge here and definitely have the same issue 1440p youtube videos are choppy as heck and also are you guys noticing that there isnt a 60fps option as well?
what the heck with my s6 edge i could watch 1440p 60fps youtube vids with no issue at all!
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It's definitely a bug. The Snapdragon 820 is easily powerful enough to play 1440p videos smoothly. Hopefully it gets fixed sooner rather than later.
Those of you with unlimited data on Tmobile need to call CS and cancel the Binge On setting. If you keep this enabled on your account then the video quality is reduced big time.
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I made a video of my lag.
I kind of found a work around tho for mine.
Right when I open the app and choose a 1440p video I have to go in to the little gear option thingy and change it to 1440p. From here the video gets choppy and lags but if i go to another video and YouTube saves my 1440p selection and it automatically starts the video at 1440p where I don't have to go in and change it the video has no lag.
Someone let me know if it is the same for you.
YT was updated yesterday now with full 60FPS..no problems ever with my S7 edge