youtube watch in high quality - Desire General

Does anyone know how to watch YouTube videos in high quality by default? This is the youtube app... now you have to start a video then go to settings and choose high quality. Cheers.

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I think by default, the quality of the video depends on the speed of your connection. When using cellular network, it always starts in normal quality. When I'm on my home WiFi, it starts in high quality.

click menu then 'more' and you should see the option you are looking for when playing the video.
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Thats exactly the issue... Always when I open the youtube video I need to go to settings to to set it up as high quality. I would like it to open automatically in high quality.

I didn't try this.
But seeing as I am having the same issue on my captivate I am looking for solutions.
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/youtube-hq-hack-for-nexus-one/

Hello, You need to press menu then settings from the youtube app home screen (as soons as the app loads) Don't do any searches or owt like that! Then the option you should tick is at the top where its says "general settings" "High quality video" "always default to high quality video"

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Hey,
Just got this phone today and was playing with the setting. I saw there was a slowmo function on the video camera so i took a video with it. I went to play it back and it played regular speed. I checked a couple of places and it said to change the settings in the menu function when playing back. The only issue is that there is no menu function in video playback. Some other people have had this problem with no answer. I am running stock software on t-mobile. Any help would be appreciated.
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louballs said:
Hey,
Just got this phone today and was playing with the setting. I saw there was a slowmo function on the video camera so i took a video with it. I went to play it back and it played regular speed. I checked a couple of places and it said to change the settings in the menu function when playing back. The only issue is that there is no menu function in video playback. Some other people have had this problem with no answer. I am running stock software on t-mobile. Any help would be appreciated.
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play the slow motion video through the built in videos app. somehow, thats the only app thats plays it properly
koppee1 said:
play the slow motion video through the built in videos app. somehow, thats the only app thats plays it properly
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Its not working. Just on-sit plays at normal speed.
Just tested it's working for me
Seifer1975 said:
Just tested it's working for me
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Well not working for me. Recorded a video then played it back on the stock player. Regular motion and no option for anything else.
Make sure you're not accidentally playing it through Google's photos app. That was my problem. Clear your defaults in the app settings and then launch the video again. Make sure you choose the default video player.
That was it, thanks!!!

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Every time I watch a video on YouTube the video plays in 144p quality. I have to manually select which quality I want which is usually 720p each time and for every video I watch. Auto does nothing but play in 144p. Mobile data or Wifi same thing.
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Youtube selects the resolution based on connection speed.
I have 50+ dl speed on my WiFi. It still starts the video at 144p. If I select 1080p or 1440p quality the video plays just fine...No buffering or anything. The thing is I don't like having to select the quality for every video I watch cause sometimes I watch alot of different videos
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My youtube app plays fine (720p), even on 3G. Strange. Uninstall and install it again.

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