Woah!!! just watch a nice HD crystal clear quality vid on youtube on this beautiful screen... my question is... is there a way to watch a high quality vid like that over 3G? i did set the option in youtube to high quality but its not the same as wifi?
thanks
I too would like to see HD over 3G, but I doubt you can hack YouTube app so easily. I can imagine they are trying to protect the user experience as most of the time on 3G the HD videos take ages to buffer and have to rebuffer part of the way through. I wifi hotspot to my Transformer and it CAN play HD in its YouTube app. Even though its my phones 3g connection.
Hmm... maybe the Honeycomb YouTube app can run on ICS? Need to root this!
you could try tubemate, if it works, and download the video first at the quality you want and then watch it.
Sorry if this is considered "thread hijacking", but this got me curious. Does ICS have a special version of the youtube app that allows actual HD steaming? Or is it the same type of "HQ" steaming found in the pre-ICS app?
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How do I set HQ videos to be the default videos? Right now, if I want to watch the videos in decent quality, I have to click on a video then press Menu, More and then Watch in HQ (hassle!)
Also, why can't I watch Vevo videos???
(p.s not sure whether this issue is unique to Desire but since I am using Desire, I thought it would be somewhat appropriate to post here since some of you might know how to solve this)
im guessing you already looked for settings of it somewhere in the app?
if theres no settins then i reckon it depends on the connection quality, but wait for a confirmation from users who actually have the phone
cez10 said:
im guessing you already looked for settings of it somewhere in the app?
if theres no settins then i reckon it depends on the connection quality, but wait for a confirmation from users who actually have the phone
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Yeah I checked Setting but there is no option to set the default video quality to HQ
And it's not really about the connection quality I think coz I do have the option to "watch in HQ" and the buffering time is not that different. I tried using Wi-fi as well and still, the videos are not in HQ by default
Is Youtube the best place to play music videos? Is there any other app which can play music videos faster (by not using the wireless)?
Hey guys,
So I have a Galaxy Nexus running stock 4.0.2. I love watching videos on it, however my problem is that where I live, the fastest internet I can get is 1.5mbps. Therefore watching youtube videos at anything higher than 480p just simply isn't possible without letting it sit paused for a while to buffer.
When using the Youtube app on the Galaxy Nexus, a video in "HD" just can't load fast enough for me to watch. It seems as though the video might be loading at 720p, therefore with my internet it keeps stopping. And without HD enabled, the video quality is so horrendous it just isn't watchable.
So my question, is there any way to edit a file that will force the Youtube app to use 360p or 480p with the HD option? The app itself does not have any setting to specifically pick which quality.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
I only know of the "use high quality" option in settings. It allows you to pick to only stream HD quality videos. Maybe you could turn that off on your phone if it is on. If not I have not heard of anything like what you are looking for. It would be good to have a feature like that though.
Yea I know of that setting but its not what I am looking for. I just need a way to be able to pick a specific quality or for "HD" to default to 480p.
Does anyone know how this could be done?
Update. After research seems I got it confused with another app
There's a 3rd party youtube app which might help I think it called freetube or something not sure what settings it has
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I couldn't find any Youtube app that lets me specify a certain quality.
Is there any way to get the Youtube app to specifically stream in 360p?
Anyone got an idea?
Why are the videos on my Galaxy Nexus pixelated when watching HD videos on YouTube? I watch 720p videos and HQ is selected in the YouTube player and they are not crisp, they look bad.
How can I fix this?
Nobody has this issue??
depends on the video ur viewing....for example if u look at a 720-1080p music video it looks pretty good =)
but uhm.....theres no solution that i kno of using the youtube app, best way is always to dl high def and dump into ur phone
Havent noticed this issue. In fact its the opposite, watching 720p cideos look so excellent on this phone i cant stop using youtube.
If you watch a 240/320/480p video OP it is going to look like **** on any device, ESPECIALLY the higher resolution screen you play it on. Play Standard Definition video on an HDTV...and then play that same video on an SDTV and it will look better on the SDTV. When you play something of lower resolution on a high resolution display its going to look like a stretched out mess.
Play a 720p video on the Galaxy Nexus and you will be impressed.
This for example has a good resolution and should look great on the GNex. Try it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROGY3hewLwo&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Ok guys this is crazy.
I played the video on my channel on youtube with wifi on and the video looks bad and grainy with HQ selected in the youtube player (my video is a 720p HD video). I looked right now again a few hours later at the same video on wifi and now it looks sharp and nice. I didn't change anything....I don't know what happened but hopefully it stays this way.
Is this app even pushing 720p?? It looks more like the HQ you get on 3G instead of the HD on WiFi.
I have the WiFi only N7.
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To be honest I don't think the youtube app has ever pushed proper 720p let alone 1080p when the HD option was checked.
If you want, you can use a modded version of the old youtube app that allows you to select 720p/1080p and has other tweaks such as screen off playback and the ability to download the videos.
Search google for "youtube modded apk" and it should be the first link from XDA. (I can't post links yet)
As far as I know the only functionality you lose is the floating window thing but personally I don't really see the use in that myself.
Check this video out! I thought it looked great!
http://youtu.be/0FMfsT11pdA
Not just the playback but the whole app are so blown up, you can only see 2 huge thumbnails at a time
The new Youtube app messes up the video quality. You can fix it by downgrading (uninstall updates in app info).
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Is this app even pushing 720p?? It looks more like the HQ you get on 3G instead of the HD on WiFi.
I have the WiFi only N7
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Ya I find utube bad quality and stutters fir me... not sure if it Wi-Fi issue or kernel...it doesn't look 1080p
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Mine neither looks like 1080p.
im gonna try that modded old version of youtube, i dont like that floating HD showtime app, i don't get the point of the floating youtube
o i get it now, its kinda like having a picture in picture TV, those were so 90s lol
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1529715
I just bought the LTE version. The problem is whenever I want to watch YouTube videos using the apps, I can't watch it in high quality even though I already click the HQ button (using data). The quality is really bad. I also cant watch HD version using WiFi. I already click the HD button but the quality still really bad. Any way to watch it in high quality using YouTube apps? The only solution I got is watching it using browser with flash support. But I want to watch it using YouTube apps which is more convenient. Thanks.
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