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Do you find Youtube jerky?

In high quality it is jerky- sometimes smooth but will get jerky.
is there a fix for this?

what rom are you using? you should probably complain there
you can probably get better results by playing the video after its fully buffered the whole file
overall like you, im not too imressed with youtube and video playback

HQ Youtube videos sometimes play jerky on my desktop with a high bandwidth connection. i wouldn't blame the X1, I'd blame the speed you are getting through your connection. Plus, there is a limit to the bitrate video, X1 can play.

I assume we are talking about HTC's Youtube app and not the slower official Youtube one. If so...
YES! It is incredibly jerky on high quality.
This is NOT an X1 hardware problem, a bandwith problem, or a buffering problem. Youtube high quality works perfectly on the R1A stock ROM. Ever since R2 (which is what I'm running on my X1a), and I'm guessing on custom ROMS based off R2 or R3 it no longer plays properly. Pausing and allowing to buffer the X1 does NOT fix the promlem, it only alleviate the problem slightly.
This is a software issue. Hopefully someone with the knowhow fixes this for us all.

THE GRIZZ said:
what rom are you using? you should probably complain there
you can probably get better results by playing the video after its fully buffered the whole file
overall like you, im not too imressed with youtube and video playback
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Grizz is right. It should play smooth (at least on mine) after fully buffered.

are you sure its a buffering issue? even when i have enough buffered it is still playing jerky.

from my memory recollection, youtube works fine on r1a and r3a rom.

youtube comes in many forms
think I have 3½ ways to play youtube
and I don't use the offical one
youtube from the panel
youtubeplay
youtube from inside opera
½ if the streaming media thingy that came
with the phone that I never had success with

All of a sudden youtube is very slooow!

I have never had any problems since I have Duttys 6.5ROM(unlike 6.1 finale!). However from today the videos are becoming extremly slow to stream when I have Wifi connection. They will stream to approx 30-50% and then freeze and then go approx 50-53-56% etc. It is extremely slow. I have tried adjusting video playback to autoselect rather then high quality but still getting same problem. Incidently there is no problens when using internet,so not sure anything to do with connection. It seems the connection is stuttering.
Please help

New rom fixes it I believe

fixed now!
Somebody was downloading a movie on home PC !

Streaming Video Stutter - N9005 - 4.4.2

wondered if anyone else suffered from this - not sure if its an "Android" or Note 3 issue
basically if watching streamed video - in particular Netflix and Youtube - I can't get smooth playback
the phone seems to drop frames (noticeable by either causing judder or a sudden slow down/speed up as it catches up)
this is via 3G or via Wifi - makes no difference
same content on IPAD is silky smooth
I've tried forcing 2D acceleration in dev settings to no avail
it seems like the hardware or OS can't keep up with the video at all times
local content plays back completely smoothly, be it podcasts via Pocketcasts or local video files via MX Player - perfectly smooth - even at 1080p
any ideas please ?

Buckster76 said:
wondered if anyone else suffered from this - not sure if its an "Android" or Note 3 issue
basically if watching streamed video - in particular Netflix and Youtube - I can't get smooth playback
the phone seems to drop frames (noticeable by either causing judder or a sudden slow down/speed up as it catches up)
this is via 3G or via Wifi - makes no difference
same content on IPAD is silky smooth
I've tried forcing 2D acceleration in dev settings to no avail
it seems like the hardware or OS can't keep up with the video at all times
local content plays back completely smoothly, be it podcasts via Pocketcasts or local video files via MX Player - perfectly smooth - even at 1080p
any ideas please ?
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I would love to say that my n9005 at 4.3 is stuttering as well. I don't know why.

eakkypoo said:
I would love to say that my n9005 at 4.3 is stuttering as well. I don't know why.
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I noticed something interesting this week -although maybe Placebo (pretty sure not though)
I've always had laggy/stuttering Netflix vs smooth on IOS
yet smooth local 1080p content - perfect really
I was trying Sky Go earlier in week and was lovely and smooth in fact I'd noted how smooth the video playback seemed vs Netflix, tonight I noticed stutter on Sky Go was beginning to think if I was running something in background or something - but then figured the difference - tonight was streamed via Wifi, earlier in week was same/similar content but downloaded first
so is there something odd with chipset that it doesn't like Wifi + Video decoding at same time ?

Buckster76 said:
I noticed something interesting this week -although maybe Placebo (pretty sure not though)
I've always had laggy/stuttering Netflix vs smooth on IOS
yet smooth local 1080p content - perfect really
I was trying Sky Go earlier in week and was lovely and smooth in fact I'd noted how smooth the video playback seemed vs Netflix, tonight I noticed stutter on Sky Go was beginning to think if I was running something in background or something - but then figured the difference - tonight was streamed via Wifi, earlier in week was same/similar content but downloaded first
so is there something odd with chipset that it doesn't like Wifi + Video decoding at same time ?
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MX Player (and others) might use hardware decoding, Netflix and the sorts might not.
You could go to Dev-settings and check on "Show CPU usage", so you can see whats happening. (But you'ld have to google what it all means as i dont know.
But what i do know is that the procces list shouldnt be too long, like 20 items in my list when idling (for 5 minutes) after usage.

[Q] 4K UHD recording problem

Hey guys! i have a problem with my s5.
I was trying out my 4K video recording.. when playing back the video, the video extremely lags and becomes very blurry.
I tried restarting my phone and closed all running apps. but still no change.
has anyone experienced this? please HELP!
Thank you

I'm guessing that the video recorded was save in your microsd card and your card happened to have slow write & read speeds. Recording at 4k resolution requires fast write speed. If the video was recorded at slow speed, the video saved will exhibit the symptoms you are experiencing.

In camera settings try setting the recording mode to "smooth"

Smooth is limited to 1080p video.
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jopat said:
I'm guessing that the video recorded was save in your microsd card and your card happened to have slow write & read speeds. Recording at 4k resolution requires fast write speed. If the video was recorded at slow speed, the video saved will exhibit the symptoms you are experiencing.
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I switched to device storage but still no improvement.
No problem in HD 1080p recording. only on UHD 4K.

when i say lag.. I mean, the video hangs. and when it does cope up, it becomes distorted. but the sound is good.

Then there's no other probable cause, other than your memory card is faulty. If you're using a modified rom, then ditch it.

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Then there's no other probable cause, other than your memory card is faulty. If you're using a modified rom, then ditch it.
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I'm not using a modified rom.
is it possible that the problem is the phone itself?

Back up your phone then try to reset it to factory settings and format your internal storage. Also, maybe you want to try other UHD camera apps. I'm running out of ideas if everything else is working properly because the best bet is the storage problem. You can also try copying the problem videos to your computer and try playing it there, but be reminded that your computer should first be able to playback UHD videos. It needs to be a modern computer.

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Back up your phone then try to reset it to factory settings and format your internal storage. Also, maybe you want to try other UHD camera apps. I'm running out of ideas if everything else is working properly because the best bet is the storage problem. You can also try copying the problem videos to your computer and try playing it there, but be reminded that your computer should first be able to playback UHD videos. It needs to be a modern computer.
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alright! I'll try that. thanks for the tip.
I'll try to watch it using my macbook pro retina

problem still not solved.
has anyone experienced this??
it seems like I'm the only one

What happened when you copied the files to your computer harddisk and play them in your computer?

jopat said:
What happened when you copied the files to your computer harddisk and play them in your computer?
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It works perfectly fine on my macboook pro retina.
do does this mean that the problem is my device??

Hellabiker said:
It works perfectly fine on my macboook pro retina.
do does this mean that the problem is my device??
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If it plays properly in your computer, then that means the video was recorded properly. Then problem is the app that you are using. Try re-scanning your directory. If that doesn't work, try using other apps.

Could you try playing the video on the phone with something like MX Player probably I see sometimes the default Video player to has issues even with 1080p video so better player is required but if you watch the video fine on the PC then why you want to watch it on the phone any way you likely wouldn`t notice the difference between 1080p and UHD on the Galaxy S5 screen.

bnight said:
Could you try playing the video on the phone with something like MX Player probably I see sometimes the default Video player to has issues even with 1080p video so better player is required but if you watch the video fine on the PC then why you want to watch it on the phone any way you likely wouldn`t notice the difference between 1080p and UHD on the Galaxy S5 screen.
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^ Good advice. You confirmed that the recording is good. The most productive thing at this point might be to find out if there is any visible difference between 1080p and UHD on a small, 5.1 inch screen. As to what is causing the playback issue it may well be inherent limitations of the stock player or a firmware issue, hence the suggestion to try MX player. It could also be background apps monopolizing your processor. Another thing you might look into is whether trimming your device memory helps. One app to do that is lagfix.

It finally worked! the MX player played the 4k video properly. finally!!
I was already thinking of selling my phone haha
What does this mean? Isn't it that the stock player should support and play the 4K video properly? whats wrong with it?

Hellabiker said:
What does this mean? Isn't it that the stock player should support and play the 4K video properly? whats wrong with it?
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The stock player miss some codecs as well as it`s not very fast in processing video don`t know why but just think it`s not supposed to be used for what we used it. On the other hand MX Player has the full ffmpeg codec set and it`s optimized for slower processors then the one in the S5 so that`s why it`s working better then the stock video player. However I did record 1 minute of UHD video and it played well on the stock player currently UHD video is limited to 5 minutes.
But yes I do use mostly MX Player as it`s really good.

Hellabiker said:
It finally worked! the MX player played the 4k video properly. finally!!
I was already thinking of selling my phone haha
What does this mean? Isn't it that the stock player should support and play the 4K video properly? whats wrong with it?
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I'm glad you finally sorted it out. The stock video player should have no problem playing the video recorded by the phone itself, but then nothing is perfect.

[Q] Netflix video problem with 8.0 help

Do you guys get video stuttering on Netflix? It's pretty bad on my tab 4 8.0 to the point of getting a headache. I've tried 2.4 & 5ghz but no change. Battery saver is off. This doesn't happen on any other android devices I own. Even my old tab 2 runs Netflix smoother. Any tips or is this how it is on all tab 4s?

Could someone try Netflix and let me know how it is on your tablet please.

Tested Netflix on my Tab4 8", no problems at all.
Do you experience this stuttering on any other video app?

bondobox said:
Could someone try Netflix and let me know how it is on your tablet please.
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Tab 7 here. I get a bit of stuttering but rebooted and plays smooth again.
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I've tried out some other players like mxplayer and also stuff like YouTube and video playback is smooth. It seems to be just Netflix that is having this issue for me. I've restarted and all that but no luck. Netflix is the only one getting this stuttering every few seconds. Real annoying. Not sure why. I've never seen Netflix act like this on any of my devices and other tablets that I currently own.

Try clearing the cache, try reinstalling?

i have the same problem
what i have tried so far:
1. re install firmware using Kies.
2. format cache, factory reset from recovery
3. clear cache, restart app
4. disabled screen mirror, smart stay, palm motion , switched to nova launcher...
5. limit background process, check do not keep activities.
6. disabled power saving.
7. disabled multiwindow.
edit: also tried
8. clear all other apps cache.
9. Turned off all the bloatware.
10. installed task killers, show no process running since they are Turned off.
11 disabled rotation
12. enabled airplane mode
I also noticed movies in SD does not shutter. only the ones in super HD.
don't know what else to try, and i don't want to root and lose warranty.
playing 1080p 60Hz videos shutter a little bit, I'm starting to think that is just that the CPU cant cope with doing many things at the same time like using wireless an decoding video. since day 1, i noticed that while the updates were downloading and installing it became very laggy over all, and I was like, what are 4 cores there for then? its just that its a crappy tablet and that's all.

I've tried a lot of the things above to and Netflix is still having this micro stuttering. I noticed that if I lower the Netflix quality in my settings it will still stutter so it has nothing to do with the tablet not being able to handle high quality. It almost seems like there's a bug on the Netflix side with this tablet that is causing this or something. It's kinda sad that my old tab 2 7.0 Netflix stream is better than this new tab 4. I also have a shield tablet that just blows both these away but that's expected. My wife and daughter use this tab 4 and they watch allot of Netflix on it so I would really like to figure this out. Anyone else have any ideas on what to do or know if there's a bug that needs to be ironed out with Netflix and this tablet. Maybe there's a update from Netflix or Samsung to fix this problem in the future...if they know about it.

bondobox said:
I've tried a lot of the things above to and Netflix is still having this micro stuttering. I noticed that if I lower the Netflix quality in my settings it will still stutter so it has nothing to do with the tablet not being able to handle high quality. It almost seems like there's a bug on the Netflix side with this tablet that is causing this or something. It's kinda sad that my old tab 2 7.0 Netflix stream is better than this new tab 4. I also have a shield tablet that just blows both these away but that's expected. My wife and daughter use this tab 4 and they watch allot of Netflix on it so I would really like to figure this out. Anyone else have any ideas on what to do or know if there's a bug that needs to be ironed out with Netflix and this tablet. Maybe there's a update from Netflix or Samsung to fix this problem in the future...if they know about it.
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I have tried all versions from newest to oldest , one by one, the lastest one that works is 1.8.1,
you can find it here if you want:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vjcg471do3xjmak/netflix-1.8.1.apk
disable automatic opdate for it.