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youtube video quality *poor*

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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apple_g said:
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?

gsvnet said:
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

Youtube HD

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?

motog35 said:
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.

Youtube app misleading!!

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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2k youtube video freeze

hellow
galaxy s7 edge t-mobile
anyone experiencing freeze when play a video on youtube in 2k. for example a video from MKBHD or someone else.
because i can only see videos in 1080.
anyone?

I've watched a few movie trailers in 2k and they played fine. I don't know who could watch an entire movie like that. Looks wierd to me. I always disable that auto motion plus crap on 240hz TV's. I'd rather everything I watch not look like a soap opera. =)
If you're on mobile data and you haven't called T-Mobile to cancel Bing On then they won't let you watch Youtube videos in 2k let alone 1080. They reduce the quality of Youtube videos to use less data. Of course if you're on wifi this doesn't make a difference.

If you have unlimited LTE, you can turn off Binge On.
http://www.droid-life.com/2016/01/07/how-to-turn-off-t-mobile-binge-on/
But I don't think that's OP issue here di you have the youtube link we can try?

Vanquiz said:
If you have unlimited LTE, you can turn off Binge On.
http://www.droid-life.com/2016/01/07/how-to-turn-off-t-mobile-binge-on/
But I don't think that's OP issue here di you have the youtube link we can try?
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I've heard even if you have unlimited data, they will still throttle you if you go over something like 20 gig/month.
Is that still the case?

jiovaxrs said:
hellow
galaxy s7 edge t-mobile
anyone experiencing freeze when play a video on youtube in 2k. for example a video from MKBHD or someone else.
because i can only see videos in 1080.
anyone?
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It was pausing for me on his new video also, so I searched other 2k videos and all the others played fine. I think it is just his video.

Yes. 2k videos freeze on me occasionally. I really am curious what could be causing it. I also had my entire phone freeze once when playing a video in the Break app. It totally froze and the speaker was emitting a crazy high frequency sound. I just held the power button until it rebooted

I can't say for sure, heard that they reserved the right to throttle any crazy suspicious usage, but so far I haven't got one.
I use 25GB just this couple weeks, it's just because I'm taking a break from work, and watch too much K Drama, lol. But usually every month, I used 15-25GB.

jrwingate6 said:
I've watched a few movie trailers in 2k and they played fine. I don't know who could watch an entire movie like that. Looks wierd to me. I always disable that auto motion plus crap on 240hz TV's. I'd rather everything I watch not look like a soap opera. =)
If you're on mobile data and you haven't called T-Mobile to cancel Bing On then they won't let you watch Youtube videos in 2k let alone 1080. They reduce the quality of Youtube videos to use less data. Of course if you're on wifi this doesn't make a difference.
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you now what? when i play youtube using wifi play normal the 1440 video.
realy interesting. thanks for bring me some light

jrwingate6 said:
I've heard even if you have unlimited data, they will still throttle you if you go over something like 20 gig/month.
Is that still the case?
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i got the unlimited 4glte and going to verify this now. in wifi play ok. this is (un poco extraño)

jiovaxrs said:
hellow
galaxy s7 edge t-mobile
anyone experiencing freeze when play a video on youtube in 2k. for example a video from MKBHD or someone else.
because i can only see videos in 1080.
anyone?
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I had this issue but it appears that the recent update I applied today has fixed it.

jiovaxrs said:
you now what? when i play youtube using wifi play normal the 1440 video.
realy interesting. thanks for bring me some light
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No problem....Yea, depending on my signal, I used to have 1080 YouTube videos freeze on me before I canceled Bing on.

The latest update seems to have fixed this

I think it has something to do with the updated modem, prior to update I was getting 7 -12 MB download at home, now back to normal 25-30mb.

And when i tried to play gta san andreas in full resolution break the game. Anyone?

I think the issue here might have something to do with ram management. It happened to me 3 times already. And even after the resent update it did it again! Hopefully there's a fix for this soon.
Edit: OK try this.
1. Open youtube app
2.settings
3 . Backround and offline
4.under save offline tab. Disable the sd card.
Hopefully this helps. :thumbup:

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hi
i dont see that option in my setting.
youtube/setting
i see
*get youtube red
*general
*connect TVs
*privacy
*notification
*caption
*about

JDMDC2 said:
I think the issue here might have something to do with ram management. It happened to me 3 times already. And even after the resent update it did it again! Hopefully there's a fix for this soon.
Edit: OK try this.
1. Open youtube app
2.settings
3 . Backround and offline
4.under save offline tab. Disable the sd card.
Hopefully this helps. :thumbup:
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So far this worked for me.
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Wait, what... How come some of us don't have this option, lol

I don't see the option either.

1080p videos not showing on youtube?

I have been having trouble seeing some videos that should be showing as 1080p on youtube. I have looked on my wifes one plus 3 and some videos she's able to watch at 1080p 60fps, I can only see it at 720p 60fps and it does not even give me the option for 1080p. I have tried using data and wifi and same results. I have the Tmobile Variant. Any one else with this issue?

Edu616 said:
I have been having trouble seeing some videos that should be showing as 1080p on youtube. I have looked on my wifes one plus 3 and some videos she's able to watch at 1080p 60fps, I can only see it at 720p 60fps and it does not even give me the option for 1080p. I have tried using data and wifi and same results. I have the Tmobile Variant. Any one else with this issue?
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Me too with the H870, had the G5 till yesterday and it had the same problem at the beginning, if I remember correctly a YouTube update solved it.

Killua96 said:
Me too with the H870, had the G5 till yesterday and it had the same problem at the beginning, if I remember correctly a YouTube update solved it.
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Well lets hope this one gets the same treatment. As we have a 2K screen but only using 720p is rather annoying.

Edu616 said:
Well lets hope this one gets the same treatment. As we have a 2K screen but only using 720p is rather annoying.
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A 18:9 2k+ screen ahahahah
Let's Hope and wait xD

I have the same problem too. Since about a week ago I wasn't able to watch some videos in 1080p whereas some others did work on 1080p. But previously I was able to watch all of them on highest available resolution. That's disappointing.

Maxemor said:
I have the same problem too. Since about a week ago I wasn't able to watch some videos in 1080p whereas some others did work on 1080p. But previously I was able to watch all of them on highest available resolution. That's disappointing.
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It is very disappointing and I hope we receive an update soon for this.

Edu616 said:
It is very disappointing and I hope we receive an update soon for this.
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I've searched a bit on the net, found that it appears to be a problem with newer devices, as the Youtube app doesn't support immediately this devices.
Even downloaded the last version of youtube, but still 720/60fps is the maximum resolution...
ATM you can try this: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2213945

I already tried OGYouTube and it doesn't make any difference. Argh.. YouTube has had these problems in the past but they fixed it fairly quickly. Why can't they do the same now?

Killua96 said:
I've searched a bit on the net, found that it appears to be a problem with newer devices, as the Youtube app doesn't support immediately this devices.
Even downloaded the last version of youtube, but still 720/60fps is the maximum resolution...
ATM you can try this: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2213945
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Will try this whenever I get home, at least for now it should be better than the youtube app. Thanks.

With OGYoutube i can watch videos up to 1440p!

Yes works fine with OGYoutube, watched some Transformers 5 Trailers in 1080p
And i saw on g+ with the s8+ the same problem with youtube
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Zocker Tko said:
Yes works fine with OGYoutube, watched some Transformers 5 Trailers in 1080p
And i saw on g+ with the s8+ the same problem with youtube
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This is the confirmation that is a YouTube problem xD

No 1080p using ogyoutube on 1080p android 4.4 tv system. Why? Thanks
Regards

To this day I still can not watch videos at 1080p 60 fps. How can YouTube not fix your problem?

I can watch videos at 1440 resolution.

If video is not in 60 fps you can watch it in 1080p. But if it is recorded in 60 fps you can only watch in 720p. :crying:

Is someone find the HDR option in Youtube?
I read that is rolling out a update to compatible device to watch that content

adyadvance said:
Is someone find the HDR option in Youtube?
I read that is rolling out a update to compatible device to watch that content
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The HDR is available only on S8/S8+/Note 8
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simo14 said:
The HDR is available only on S8/S8+/Note 8
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"the latest version of the YouTube app has added HDR support for Samsung's 2017 flagship phones. Google told Engadget that the Pixel, LG V30, Sony Xperia XZ Premium have received the update as well. "

adyadvance said:
"the latest version of the YouTube app has added HDR support for Samsung's 2017 flagship phones. Google told Engadget that the Pixel, LG V30, Sony Xperia XZ Premium have received the update as well. "
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I didn't know that, but why the V30 got the update and our G6 not ?
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