LTE Ver. cant play YouTube HD/HQ - Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A

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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Bug or Feature?

Just want to start off by saying that this phone is amazing besides the LOS. Well back on topic.
I have the updated version of youtube that was provided here on the forum. I downloaded it and installed. Ever since i installed it i noticed that i can play a YouTube video and turn off the screen and the video will continue playing. Now i can listen to some music that have remixes but are not available to download using the app.
What is yall's opinion on that. Good or bad?
Sidenote: i use wifi
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r1_2fast4u said:
Just want to start off by saying that this phone is amazing besides the LOS. Well back on topic.
I have the updated version of youtube that was provided here on the forum. I downloaded it and installed. Ever since i installed it i noticed that i can play a YouTube video and turn off the screen and the video will continue playing. Now i can listen to some music that have remixes but are not available to download using the app.
What is yall's opinion on that. Good or bad?
Sidenote: i use wifi
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I believe this is a feature because I was recording a video yesterday and when I did a playback the sound was still going while the screen was black.... Maybe its just to save backlight battery life
I would say its a bug. Sometimes when I am watching a flash video on the web browser and I exit the browser (and I mean even kill the browser in the task manager) the video audio will play until the end of the video. I think they've got bigger fish to fry with this LOS, but after that's solved, I intend to bring this one up.

Youtube

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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[Q] Youtube App HD Setting

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?

HD Content on A100?

I am wondering if anyone else is having issues playing HD video on the A100. I have put multiple different HD files on the device itself and tried to play them in MX Media Player, but the playback is downright horrible. Even with hardware rendering. I really want to be able to play my media over my network, but right now, it is just waay too choppy to watch, even with it on the card. Is there something I am missing?
with HD you mean 1080p videos? if so, try Mobo Player, it works really god at fullHD videos (at least for me).
also streaming 1080p is sketchy at best on wifi..
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720p. And I am using mobo player
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stompysan said:
720p. And I am using mobo player
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well it is suppose that acer a100 suports fullHD, so try killing processes or cleaning cache. what's your android version? (3.2 or 3.2.1)
What audio s used on the files, I have noticed that 720p mkv movies using DTS for example will outright kill performance.
Try using a 4GB 'scene' release with stereo audio if you haven't on MX Video to see if helps.
Look what i found, it may work.
Link.
I am using BSPlayer lite. This works the best for my MKV's with no audio loss. It loses some frames but plays more than MX Video or MoboPlayer.
You will need to get the ARM7 add on for it.
Try this out. I am able to stream my over 4gb MKV's from my server to my A100.
The tegra 2's only downfall... its horrible at decoding high profile HD video such as H264 video. Should be able yo run 720p just fine though depending on the type of video. I'd say try clearing up some memory.
I honestly don't see the point of playing 1080p video on a 7" tablet, seems like overkill. I can understand that its convenient to have 1 file that'll run on all your devices, but unfortunately that can't always be the case.
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YouTube looks gross....

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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Try the app on my sig
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

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