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.
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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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Edit: Sorry I didn't see this thread sooner: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1366756
Hello, currently I am using the Galaxy S II (1.5ghz Qualcomm S3 version). It almost play 720p MKV videos with RockPlayer, but not quite, since the audio lags behind the video.
Can someone give RockPlayer a try with some hd MKV files on their Nexus and see if it can handle them? Low bitrates will manage, but I'm looking at 720p and 1080p MKV videos at 2000kbps or more.
I am interested in waiting for the American version of the Galaxy Note, but it will also use the Qualcomm S3 chip, which means even though it has a larger screen, it won't play be playing my videos. If the Nexus can manage these videos, I rather get it instead.
There are some legal hd videos such as big buck bunny, which can be converted from MP4 to MKV.
(PS. Yes I want to watch HD videos on my cellphone screen.)
I am the same way. I play 720P .mkv on my phone. i currently have the Rezound(the Nexus is not available in the US yet). When i was using the Thunderbolt, it would play these files, but unless i overclocked the phone it would play out-of-sync(but even then, it would still be slightly out-of-sync).
On the Rezound, 99% of the time the files play just fine(no sync issues). I found that the best player to use is 'Dice Player', followed by MX Video Player.
I did say "99%", and yeah.. for some reason, on rare occasions a video will start to slip out-of-sync, and when it does it's with MX Video Player.. but if do it through Dice Player it plays fine.
I will say though that having 'Sense' on this phone isn't exactly a big plus when it comes to try to getting the best performance out of it. Luckily, the Nexus doesn't have Sense.
I have done a few BluRay rips to 1280x720 (native nexus) and they play on the Galaxy Nexus perfectly using build in player. Much, much better than they ever did on my 10.1 tablet. No issues at all.
The scene I use for test is the bit in Inception where the tables explode in the cafe, this really makes some struggle. No prob on the nexus, very impressed.
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Galaxy Nexus 1080p FULL HD and 720p MKV Video Playback Test
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Galaxy Nexus 1080p FULL HD and 720p MKV Video Playback Test
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MX Player seemed to have more options on when to use hardware decoding than QQ Player has in that video. You could have hardware video decoding while also running software audio decoding.
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?
hi,
well... i'm the strange one, but while everyone is complaining about not able to get real full screen in some cases when you play a video, i'm on the other side, i'm looking for a video player where i could watch videos like how youtube looks like in tablet mode, when you can see other thumbnails next to your video.
before call me crazy, let me explain :cyclops: i love my nexus, i've bought it mainly for its screen, and it is great - but sadly... only when you have hd feed, (oh i love it in hd, and real full screen is great)
unfortunately i do have a lot of music video from the web, and some are really low res. i did change the audio tracks from lossless sources, but couldn't find the videos in better quality, so when i playback my favorite mv's, most of them look awful on the big screen over larged 200% or sometimes 300% :crying: i can of course playback in real size on full screen so the quality is not too bad, but it looks really weird - the big black screen with a tiny video at the center. on the other hand when i watch them on youtube (without playing in full screen) they look ok more or less, the other thumbnails next to the now playing one fill up the empty space.
i'm not sure if such a player exist, but again, i often think something is impossible, then later i find it.
does anyone know something?
Okay this might not be what exactly you are looking for but I think what you really want is a video player where you can resize the playing window so that if the video you are watching happens to be low quality, you can resize it to a smaller frame. In that case try the app Super Video by GPC on the market. It's basically a floating window video player and when you are playing a video, you can resize the window to any size you want. Hope that's useful.
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thanks for the tip, it is not bad at all, it would be close enough.
sadly it won't play smoothly. i did install the sw decoder pack or whatever was the name and now plays my files, but the audio is a bit async, and the video freezes or get blocks all over the screen, look like when a slow pc tries to play full hd files... also it takes 10 mins to load 23 thumbnails, then when i close the app, and reopen it starts again, navigating amongst the videos also freezes the app, have no idea what it is. i have mx player, it plays 720p movies smoothly, but these low quality mv's should not be a problem for any player
any idea?
Hmm I haven't really tested this app a lot so I'm afraid I can't help you. I used it to play some videos which I took with the phone's camera and it played fine. If I have to guess then it probably has problems with certain codices and you might be able to fix the problem by reencoding the videos with a different format, but that might be more trouble than it's worth.
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i reinstalled it with the codecs as well, and now plays well
but something is still not perfect, because when i played one video, and wanted to start the next one, it froze - totally, i had to remove the battery...
anyway, i keep trying, but now i know at least that it's possible, just seen on youtube that galaxy s3 have this feature by default
thanks again
I am the only one experimenting it?
Is quite aparent for high quality videos, 4k hdr etc.
Any suggestion for improvement?
I don't have an answer for you but I have experienced this when watching some videos on YouTube. I've tested the same videos on my laptop as well as my wife's iPad and they are good there.
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I don't have an answer for you but I have experienced this when watching some videos on YouTube. I've tested the same videos on my laptop as well as my wife's iPad and they are good there.
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Hey can you post a link to the video or videos that judder that you played back on your device, so i can test? i have 4k 20 gig file and it plays flawlessly and i haven’t experienced any judder on Samsung Video player or YouTube 4k playback! I am rooted and am using YouTube Vanced!
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Hey can you post a link to the video or videos that judder that you played back on your device, so i can test? i have 4k 20 gig file and it plays flawlessly and i haven’t experienced any judder on Samsung Video player or YouTube 4k playback! I am rooted and am using YouTube Vanced!
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mmm. is mostly on downloaded stuff. don't get me wrong, it is not bad or distracting, just... could be better.
will try to check at home and paste some links.