Youtube App - Pausing Videos & Reading Comments - Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

My two biggest issues with the YouTube app are the following:
Pausing a video leaves this big obstrusive overlay up on the screen and dims the video in the background. Often times I wish I could see the frame of video I've paused it on.
Why is there no way to read the description or comments? Ideally I'd like to read and write comments but I'll settle for at least being able to read the description and comments. I've tried side-loading various YouTube apks I've found with no success.
Side-loading the latest (non-leanback version of) YouTube resolves my first issue.
I'm dual-booting the stock ROM and zulu99's Full Android Marshmallow ROM from a USB HDD. In the same exact version I've installed of YouTube onto Full Android, I can view descriptions and comments. So why doesn't that version, side-loaded, work similarly in the stock Android TV ROM? Is there a way to tweak it, maybe through xposed, to get descriptions/comments to display?

http://www.videomap.it/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=1583
Try 220 DPI for Youtube app with Xposed or flash that rom.
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[Q] Need the original Youtube application

Hi!
I have a HTC Maple with one of those new fangled custom roms installed on it.
Now before I installed the new ROM, The youtube app ran videos perfectly on my extremely slow internet connection (128 kbps) with no Lag at all.
Now the new Rom, comes with a newer youtube app, and it dosent play the videos in low quality, meaning it'll take like 4 minutes to watch a 2 minute movie.
So anyways, can anyone give me the original youtube app that came on the phone?
Thanks!
Sigh.
Im still looking for the app.
Now the HTC streaming media refuses to load youtube videos.
Can anyone give me the original HTC youtube app that came with the phone?

[Q] MIUI 2.1.20 Video Is Buggy - Fix Available?

Hi. I'm currently running MIUI 2.1.20 (see link below)
http://forums.miui.us/showthread.php?13388-MIUI-us-Kindle-Fire-rom-Updated-2-1-20-0xD34D
One problem for me is that I can play streaming videos from the Net and user-uploaded videos in Facebook, but when they play, the video is all choppy, like how a TV is out of tune with like diagonal lines running through it, so it's pretty much un-viewable. The audio plays fine, and the video plays, just can't really make it out at all. So, this happens when I try to watch videos from web-sites that aren't in YouTube & Netflix (those work fine).
Was wondering if there has been any development regarding a fix for this issue in this build of MIUI?
If not, does anyone know if the 2.2.3 ICS build of MIUI addresses this issue? (see link below) It's not listed as a known issue, but I don't want to assume it's fixed before flashing to it.
http://forums.miui.us/showthread.php?15369-ROM-ALPHA-2-15-2012-MIUI-us-4-0-3-2-2-10-Ice-Cream-Sandwiched!
Thanks for your time & feedback! : ]
I use MX video player for all my videos. You can set it to SW decode and its pretty good about playing all videos without lag.
Sent from my Amazon Kindle Fire using xda premium
TheImmaculateJ said:
Hi. I'm currently running MIUI 2.1.20 (see link below)
http://forums.miui.us/showthread.php?13388-MIUI-us-Kindle-Fire-rom-Updated-2-1-20-0xD34D
One problem for me is that I can play streaming videos from the Net and user-uploaded videos in Facebook, but when they play, the video is all choppy, like how a TV is out of tune with like diagonal lines running through it, so it's pretty much un-viewable. The audio plays fine, and the video plays, just can't really make it out at all. So, this happens when I try to watch videos from web-sites that aren't in YouTube & Netflix (those work fine).
Was wondering if there has been any development regarding a fix for this issue in this build of MIUI?
If not, does anyone know if the 2.2.3 ICS build of MIUI addresses this issue? (see link below) It's not listed as a known issue, but I don't want to assume it's fixed before flashing to it.
http://forums.miui.us/showthread.ph...012-MIUI-us-4-0-3-2-2-10-Ice-Cream-Sandwiched!
Thanks for your time & feedback! : ]
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Right now, the lack of hardware acceleration in the multiple ports of ICS for the Fire prevents HD video playback, and often leaves SD video pretty laggy or choppy. Also, with no native support for Adobe Flash when streaming video, that can degrade the quality as well, if not playing whatsoever. The devs are working to get this resolved, but as it's a really complicated process, it still may be awhile before it's resolved.

[Q] No sound for embedded YouTube videos in 4.4 Chrome?

Since updating to 4.4, I'm having an odd problem. When visiting sites in Chrome that have embedded YouTube videos (forums, blogs, etc), I can play the video but no sound comes through. I can open the YT app and play the video normally. I downloaded Dolphin Browser and videos play fine.
I tried switching over to ART and back to Dalvik. Made no difference either way. Also tried clearing default applications in case video playback was somehow tied to an app that wasn't fully 4.4-compatible.
Anyone else having the same problem?
As a side issue - I can't interact with the like/dislike/share icons at the top of the video. Is this also a common thing?
having the same issue: embedded youtube videos on chrome browser does not have audio.
did not update bootloader, sideloaded odexed 4.4
sometimesido said:
having the same issue: embedded youtube videos on chrome browser does not have audio.
did not update bootloader, sideloaded odexed 4.4
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Yeah, I should note that as well - I sideloaded - I did not get OTA.
As an experiment I went ahead and did the nuclear option - restoring to the factory image that just got released. Good news, that did the trick and videos in Chrome are now behaving.
Bad news...now I have to wait for all my apps to restore
Weird. Wiped, updated boot loader, flashed deodexed and now it is working.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda app-developers app

youtube on PA 4.6 B2 kumquat

hi, thanks for your job, i've installed this rom on xperia U and the device now is great! i've installed also NANO MODULAR PACKAGE for gapps, and play store works. just i've two problem: youtube video don't works, the app starts, search the videos, but don't play,and the dialer is slow when i digit(solved with ex dialer). how can i fix youtube?
thanks again!
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peppeg85 said:
hi, thanks for your job, i've installed this rom on xperia U and the device now is great! i've installed also NANO MODULAR PACKAGE for gapps, and play store works. just i've two problem: youtube video don't works, the app starts, search the videos, but don't play,and the dialer is slow when i digit(solved with ex dialer). how can i fix youtube?
thanks again!
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I have similar problem the video is divided in 3 parts and in black and white
i solved it by reinstall you tube app
youtube on PA 5.1
I'm having a similar problem, but it is not limited to youtube. I have tired plex too, and it also fails to play a video.
When I play a video youtube I just get "There was a problem while playing. Touch to retry"
In plex the video fails to play telling me to restart my plex media server and to reboot the phone.
I have rebooted the phone and it makes no difference.
Anybody have any ideas on how to fix that? Everything else seems to work properly on this rom so far, and the stock rom is getting more and more laggy which is why I'm trying different roms.
Anybody have any ideas?
**Update**
For some reason a video would start without video at times. When that happens if I change the quality to something lower than 480p, it actually works.
MX player works perfectly regardless of resolution.
Plex is completely broken, it will not work regardless of what I set the video to, it fails.
On a HTC One M8

MLB.TV v1.3.4 App Not Loading Video

The MLB.TV app for Android TV updated to v1.3.4 recently.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bamnetworks.mlbtv
This new version only shows a black screen when trying to watch any video on it. Has anyone else encountered this problem on their Nexus Player? I don't think it's a regional blackout issue because videos are playable on the MLB At Bat app on my Nexus 5 which is still able to cast content over to the Nexus Player. The MLB.TV app was working fine at v1.3.2 but I don't have a saved copy of the older APK file to revert back to.
Anyone? The problem is still ongoing so until the MLB.TV app starts working properly, it's only good for displaying scores. I'll just have to cast games over to the Nexus Player instead.
Same problem since last update (that was on Saturday I think..)
Some good folks on Reddit got it working by disabling and re-enabling Location in the android settings and then reinstalling the app but no luck for me. Tried bunch of times, many reboots, clear cache etc..
Sadly, I can't find an older .apk to downgrade
At least now I know I'm not the only one who's experiencing this. Can you post a link to the reddit page where they discussed this problem? I think you're referring to https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidTV/comments/3isfu0/mlbtv_premium_broken_after_update/ if I'm not mistaken. I tried the location setting adjustment and uninstall / reinstall of the MLB.TV app on my Nexus Player but that still didn't fix the video problem. The radio streams work but who installs this app on Android TV to listen to radio streams? I'm disappointed that MLB.TV v1.3.3 and v1.3.4 were released without adequate testing.
GabbyWC said:
At least now I know I'm not the only one who's experiencing this. Can you post a link to the reddit page where they discussed this problem? I think you're referring to https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidTV/comments/3isfu0/mlbtv_premium_broken_after_update/ if I'm not mistaken. I tried the location setting adjustment and uninstall / reinstall of the MLB.TV app on my Nexus Player but that still didn't fix the video problem. The radio streams work but who installs this app on Android TV to listen to radio streams? I'm disappointed that MLB.TV v1.3.3 and v1.3.4 were released without adequate testing.
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It seems to be working on Shield and some Sony TVs :S
I wonder if upgrading to M Preview could help
October is coming.. better fix this soon
FYI I flashed M preview 3 to find out MLB.tv doesn't work on Prev 2&3 ..
Flashed last factory image for 5.1.1 and now the app works perfectly. FINALLY
I'd rather not reflash my Nexus Player with a factory image. I flashed Android 5.1.1 (LMY48J) a few weeks ago and don't plan to start over until Android 6.0 Marshmallow is officially released this year. It's disappointing that the MLB.TV app is still problematic but I'll stick with casting games and video clips from MLB At Bat until things change for the better.
Hmmm, now that Google has released Android 5.1.1 build LMY48N, I may go ahead and flash that factory image and try the MLB.TV app after a clean install.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/0...actory-images-for-the-nexus-4-5-6-7-9-and-10/
Okay, so MLB.TV v1.3.4 is working on a clean install of Android 5.1.1 LMY48N. I've noticed that when I install AdAway and its latest hosts file, however, this leads to the black screen issue with MLB.TV videos.
GabbyWC said:
Okay, so MLB.TV v1.3.4 is working on a clean install of Android 5.1.1 LMY48N. I've noticed that when I install AdAway and its latest hosts file, however, this leads to the black screen issue with MLB.TV videos.
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OMG.. so that means the only reason why I couldn't watch games was that I had AdAway?
I think so, @koperniczx3. I wish I had realized it before I resorted to a clean install of Android but it seems to be what causes the black screen issue on my current configuration. Once the AdAway hosts file is disabled and the Nexus Player is restarted, MLB.TV videos play again. I think that this conflict with AdAway has something to do with this line from the MLB.TV v1.3.3 changelog:
- Support for Pre Roll Ads on Free Game of the Day and Game Recaps for free mlb.com registered users.
I'll just have to do without AdAway until after the MLB postseason. The ironic thing is that AdAway has a "Log DNS Requests" feature that could be used to identify and whitelist the MLB server(s) but that feature is generally inaccessible on Android TV because the 3 dots menu in that app (and other sideloaded apps) is missing on Android 5.1 and higher.

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