At medium brightness, how long can you stream a Youtube video using the Youtube app in Android 4.4?
You should be able to get at least 5 hours. I do. I'm always watching YouTube videos.?
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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.
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.
Why the YouTube app on my Gnexus does not want play more of 4 minutes of video on any videos longer then that?only when on 3g by the look of it . ideas ??
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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I'll make it short and to the point.
When I play a YouTube stream at 720p over WiFi on the stock firmware the battery drain is about 1% per 3mins. But on just about any custom KitKat ROM out there the loss is much more heavy, it's about 1% per 1.5 mins.
The brightness was kept at 50% in all cases. I tried even lowering the brightness but it had little or no effect.
I am beginning to wonder if these are directly related to the changes Google made to Kikat's rendering engine for UI and everything else as part of their project Butter.
GSMArena for example noted in their battery tests for several phones after the kitkat updates from Jellybean the video play back time has suffered.
I have tested this issue extensively with multiple ROMs against the stock .96 and .211 firmwares
You guys know a reason for this? Is there a way get around this? I really like the various KitKat ROMs out there but YouTube battery drain is too much an issue now and everything else is just fine.
Previously YouTube app on android depended on Adobe flash right? Now how does it work? Is the whole YouTube app on android running on HTML5 backend?
Hope someone else has noticed this too.
i don't think so bro
galihsatriak said:
i don't think so bro
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:crying: Hoping someone has. It's easily noticeable when you play YouTube videos over WiFi with any of the custom Kitkat ROMs.
If there is a way to track something or someone wants me to put out some of the log dumps, do let me know what I need to do and I will try post them here.
Not only YouTube man its just when you play videos example: MX player you'll notice the difference
Sony ROMs are the best if the had the speed of cyanogen ROMs
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zaidx said:
Not only YouTube man its just when you play videos example: MX player you'll notice the difference
Sony ROMs are the best if the had the speed of cyanogen ROMs
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Did another comparison with stored 720p MP4 video
Stock ROM .96 stock Movie player from Sony ---> 1% for every 4mins
KitKat ROM stock Movie player ---> 1% for every ~4.1 mins
More or less the same.
So the curious thing is WiFi radios are the same in both cases when I play YouTube streams at 720p and the stock Jellybean does better on the same version of the YoutTube app while KitKat ROMs, all of them so far, eat too much battery playing the same YouTube stream on the exact same WiFi Radio.
This is why I am thinking it's something to do with how KitKat itself is designed to work now with various apps. Maybe something inefficient is triggered in KitKat while playing YouTube.
Could be it be that Hardware Acceleration is broken in KitKat for YouTube?
Anyway to track the levels of acceleration?
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