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So ive noticed that there is a new (maybe old) feature on YouTube when i access from my PC for watching vids in high(er) quality...since it is YouTube that is offering this option does anyone know if we will be able to watch Vids in higher quality from our G1's??? they are still very choppy (opinion)
-MADE SOME "PROGRESS" OR DISCOVERY IN POST 10 BELOW
not sure if you are aware of this, but youtube plays at a higher resolution if you are connected via wifi vs 3g/edge.
dwang said:
not sure if you are aware of this, but youtube plays at a higher resolution if you are connected via wifi vs 3g/edge.
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ya ive tried and noticed a slight difference but wifi connection is not always available to me...
if you've only noticed a slight difference, then the video you are watching was low quality before it even made it to youtube
The higher quality option within the standard Youtube site utilizes h.264 with AAC.
As far as I know the G1 uses only the old standard .FLV through its built-in player when using WIFI.
When running on EDGE or 3g the G1 Youtube player player connects to the mobile .3gp stream.
The iPhone on the other hand uses the h.264 stream when wifi is connected, or the .3gp stream when in EDGE or 3G coverage (although downloading of the higher quality stream is available through the device with MXtube.
I own the two devices and will be doing a few comparison videos in a week or so. It is interesting that no reviewer has commented on the fact (or what I believe to be a fact) that the Youtube viewer on the iPhone is a lot nicer to use and watch on the whole, despite Google owning Youtube. Really they should have offered the best mobile Youtube experience on the G1.
One GOOD point about the use of .FLV streams is that they load a LOT faster. The same stream in h.264 on my iPhone can take many seconds to buffer - even with my 10mbps broadband connection - where the same clip on the G1 buffers almost instantaneously. I suspect that Youtube throttles their h.264 streams (for reasons best known to themselves) since I have no problem streaming the BBC's lovely h.264 iPlayer streams.
I suspect it is HTC who actually made the Youtube app, and that it will be improved, or even replaced with the Cupcake release.
Another problem which is slightly off topic and will NOT be improved with updates is that the G1's loudspeaker is vastly inferior to the iPhone 3G's (though much better than the pathetic iPhone 2G speaker).
Sound quality for me is very important when I'm watching videos on my device, and as I've swapped and changed between my G1 and iPhone over the past couple of weeks I've found the speaker quality of my G1 to be a source of great irritation being as it is just so tinny. and annoyingly positioned. Despite being only monaural the iPhone 3G's speaker is one of the best out there.
Me and my friend did a comparison, he has iphone and i have g1 obviously. Both of us are in 3g are and his quality blows g1 away. I agree youtube videos looks pretty horrible on g1 with or without 3g. Speaker is definately behind in the iphone wars also. I have noticed that i pick the videos up much faster than iphone but i would wait for quality. Alot of youtube videos are low quality video's however.
maybe someone can impliment a "force &fmt=18 string" at the end of every youtube video link that gets played to force the quality to be good. but of course, you would have to wait for it to load too, so they should make it an option when you press the "menu" button, maybe they could do something in the next custom firmware for root users.
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maybe someone can impliment a "force &fmt=18 string" at the end of every youtube video link that gets played to force the quality to be good. but of course, you would have to wait for it to load too, so they should make it an option when you press the "menu" button, maybe they could do something in the next custom firmware for root users.
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thts actually a great idea as this code provides excellent resolution on PC's, and i wouldnt mind waiting as stated above i would rather have higher quality...
Has anyone compared the video quality when launching videos from the youtube.com website instead of searching for them with the youtube app? I believe the app normally searches m.youtube.com which has videos that are reencoded with a lower quality.
WOOOOO
so keeping in mind the "&fmt=18" code at the end of the actual vid URL i tried this...
1) go to the actual website www.youtube.com (not app)
2) search/click on any vid, it will ask you if you want to use the "youtube app" or "browser", Click browser
3)once the page opens you will see the flashplayer error, hit the menu button and "go to url" add the code "&fmt=18" to the end of the url then copy
4)go to www.keepvid.com and paste in the blue box then click download
5)scroll down and you will see 2 options to download make sure u click the mp4 high quality link...(not the flv link)
6)WAHHLAAAHH enjoy looks 5times better even though takes 5 times longer lol hope this is worth it for some of you
nice find. you can also use the fmt=22 addition to get HD videos from youtube.
on a side note, i was trying to find an easier way to do this and found that if you look it up in the application, you can just use Menu/share to send it to yourself. before you send it, you can add the URL extension of choice and when you get the email and click on it, it will ask youtube or browser. select youtube and it will play, but it seems to drop the added extension. if we could find a way to make it keep it, it would effectivly remove the need to use www.keepvid.com
and the 720p vidoes (if available) do play very well and look AWSOME on the phone!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pXfHLUlZf4&fmt=22 (the one i d/l to my phone to test a HD video)
I found a way to not have to d/l the video. just copy the link from www.keepvid.com and put it into the Meridian Video Player from the marketplace. It will stream it no problem, including the HD ones... (does not work with the youtube link and the added extension, but at least you dont have to d/l videos anymore)
If there would be a way to use longclick to have an option to open it in Meridian, you could do this probably from the youtube page even. Or if a similar option would be available from the mail app, then you just send the link and click!
Just to comment, but none of the youtube videos are anywhere close to 720p in resolution. They are indeed pretty good for streaming videos but those are probably about 800x480 or something along the lines of that.
just wanted to let everyone knows that Plex is now fully working on the asus transformer.
I cant get it to install, just sits downloading with no info at all :'(
Left it downloading over night, was installed by morning, must of been some weird issue on google's side
Plex is awesome, especially on this Transformer
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How do you get it to buffer the video? Mine just sits a 0% and then kicks me back to the media selection screen. Do you have to set port forwarding on the router?
Does it lag when playing 720p MKV files? I don't have my Transformer yet, but I've tested PLEX on my HTC Desire HD and it's lags pretty much when playing the 720p MKV's in 5 Mbps in the settings, changing the settings to 1,5 Mbps works fine but the quality is like crap.
Maybe it's just because of my Desire HD, or my broken graphics card
I couldn't get plex working, installalled the server side app on my Windows 7 x64 pc, installed the Android app.
Set it all up, port forwarded on my router, transformer sees all my movies but each time I select a movie it just shows a black screen for a few seconds and then bombs me back to the selection part again.
MP3's on the other hand all work fine, its just movie streaming that I couldn't get sorted out, all divx/xvid movies.
If anyone has any suggestions or pointers i would be greatful
thanks..just updated it from the market and it works great.. streaming 720p High profile files without any lag
this app is amazing.
just got it from the market....works perfect!
Does this work over internet or just over the LAN.
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I couldn't get plex working, installalled the server side app on my Windows 7 x64 pc, installed the Android app.
Set it all up, port forwarded on my router, transformer sees all my movies but each time I select a movie it just shows a black screen for a few seconds and then bombs me back to the selection part again.
MP3's on the other hand all work fine, its just movie streaming that I couldn't get sorted out, all divx/xvid movies.
If anyone has any suggestions or pointers i would be greatful
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Have you tried enabling 'direct play' in the options, in the tablet app, not the server?
What's the difference between direct play and direct stream ?.
bobcatuk said:
I couldn't get plex working, installalled the server side app on my Windows 7 x64 pc, installed the Android app.
Set it all up, port forwarded on my router, transformer sees all my movies but each time I select a movie it just shows a black screen for a few seconds and then bombs me back to the selection part again.
MP3's on the other hand all work fine, its just movie streaming that I couldn't get sorted out, all divx/xvid movies.
If anyone has any suggestions or pointers i would be greatful
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you either downloaded from Amazon or pirated it. Neither versions are the correct one for Honeycomb.
Plex is awesome! Works perfectly on my eeepad.
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What's the difference between direct play and direct stream ?.
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http://www.tested.com/forums/phones/4/plex-11-for-ios-gets-direct-play-and-direct-streaming/7447/
never used plex before but love it know.I love the film title pic and info given really good, is there a way to get such info for movie's already stored on the TF,I don't mean running plex, when i go into the gallery tab my movie's are , but it doesn't even show the titles.Would love to have it show titles, cover art even synopsis
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never used plex before but love it know.I love the film title pic and info given really good, is there a way to get such info for movie's already stored on the TF,I don't mean running plex, when i go into the gallery tab my movie's are , but it doesn't even show the titles.Would love to have it show titles, cover art even synopsis
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I don't know.. but I doubt it. It seems that all the work for show titles, cover art, and synopsis are created by the server app.. not the client app on the tablet.
Getting really bad quality on apple movie trailers and so so on local stuff. Definitely not HD. What settings do you use? Think I will ask for refund.
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Getting really bad quality on apple movie trailers and so so on local stuff. Definitely not HD. What settings do you use? Think I will ask for refund.
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AFAIK Plex uses Direct-stream which downgrades quality based on its detection methods for the device. I've noticed definite quality downgrades on some of my stuff, but at least they play. Plex has been the only streamer that I have gotten to play hi-profile files, but it does downgrade them. Some people think it's a hardware problem with Tegra2, but I have not gotten any player (moboplayer, vplayer etc...) to play hi-profile mkv's without immense lag.
Now all Plex needs to do is get working on doing mkv container subtitles over streaming and it would be perfect!
Plex works amazing. Can't wait for Hulu and Netflix support.
Apple Trailers are bad quality but that was the only thing I coud see. But then again who cares, its Apple.
I'm currently on 3.1 and facing major issues with YouTube. While the playback is smooth, the buffering of the video is pretty awful. I'm sure its not any issue with my router, as the same video streams pretty fast on my Captivate and laptop. Anyone else facing the same issue? Thanks in advance.
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I'm currently on 3.1 and facing major issues with YouTube. While the playback is smooth, the buffering of the video is pretty awful. I'm sure its not any issue with my router, as the same video streams pretty fast on my Captivate and laptop. Anyone else facing the same issue? Thanks in advance.[/QUOTE
I find buffering during playback almost never works. If you navigate to the homescreen and then back to the youtube app playback will resume.
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Yes, I have this problem also. No matter what I play on Youtube using the built in app, it plays fine, but stops to buffer constantly. I have a perfectly good connection and can play these videos on other machines. In fact, they played without all the buffering on the 3.01 software. Even regular def videos have the problem.
I just watched about 8 videos using the YouTube app. I set all videos to play in HD within my settings and I don't have any buffering issues. Right now I'm watching a 12 minute video of Battlefield 3, which had to buffer on my iPad, and so far no buffering what so ever
I'm loving the TF more and more!
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I just watched about 8 videos using the YouTube app. I set all videos to play in HD within my settings and I don't have any buffering issues. Right now I'm watching a 12 minute video of Battlefield 3, which had to buffer on my iPad, and so far no buffering what so ever
I'm loving the TF more and more!
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Its funny That you say this because I have been trying to watch that same 12 minute video for an hour and ended up having t come here t try and find out how t fix the'biffering issue. Can anyone comment?
seh6183 said:
Its funny That you say this because I have been trying to watch that same 12 minute video for an hour and ended up having t come here t try and find out how t fix the'biffering issue. Can anyone comment?
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The video is freaking sick!!! Have you rebooted it? I keep it off while not in use, so I just turn it on when needed. Also, are you close to your router? I'm a few feet away from mine.
lost2030 said:
The video is freaking sick!!! Have you rebooted it? I keep it off while not in use, so I just turn it on when needed. Also, are you close to your router? I'm a few feet away from mine.
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It doesn't matter. The same video plays smoothly on the stock browser, without buffering issues. I'm feel its something to do with the Youtube app
I have this issue with only true 720p or 1080i videos. Remember every video says HD even if its not.
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I have this issue with only true 720p or 1080i videos. Remember every video says HD even if its not.
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I had the issue in the app with 360p videos also.
I know this is going to seem ridiculous, but try something as an experiment. Change your dns server on the device to googledns or open dns. Lt us know if that impacts anything. I have a suspicion about the way dns routing may happen via certain isp's. This is something that has been going on with iOS devices regularly and I'm curious to see if it carries across platforms.
Sorry I can't be more help, but for the limited time it takes, can't hurt to try!
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I know this is going to seem ridiculous, but try something as an experiment. Change your dns server on the device to googledns or open dns. Lt us know if that impacts anything. I have a suspicion about the way dns routing may happen via certain isp's. This is something that has been going on with iOS devices regularly and I'm curious to see if it carries across platforms.
Sorry I can't be more help, but for the limited time it takes, can't hurt to try!
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Care showing me how to change dns? Having an issue doing so
cowballz69 said:
Care showing me how to change dns? Having an issue doing so
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Sorry, I don't have my android device yet :/ you can try changing it on the router, that also fixed iOS devices.
8.8.4.4 and 8.8.8.8 are google's, 4.4 seems anecdotally quicker. http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/performance.html
lost2030 said:
The video is freaking sick!!! Have you rebooted it? I keep it off while not in use, so I just turn it on when needed. Also, are you close to your router? I'm a few feet away from mine.
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I'm in the same room as my router and it does it under almost all circumstances. Funny thing is that sometimes it will load just fine. I haven't experimented much with the browser YouTube though.
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h00ligan said:
Sorry, I don't have my android device yet :/ you can try changing it on the router, that also fixed iOS devices.
8.8.4.4 and 8.8.8.8 are google's, 4.4 seems anecdotally quicker. http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/performance.html
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My DNS is the same as my routers ip address. Can anyone change this to confirm its working?
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Just did another random test with the YouTube app and that 12 minute video buffered just fine. I even fast forwarded and rewinded to different parts and it picked up and buffered just fine. I don't know what the deal is.
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My DNS is the same as my routers ip address. Can anyone change this to confirm its working?
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I don't even find an option in the TF to move to OpenDNS. My Youtube app still has pathetic buffering. I'm trying to watch a 50 min video on Youtube and it buffers always. Pretty frustrating
In my case, the problem appears to be something to do with my route to Youtube or the particular server that I'm using there. It bothers my desktop too. I can play high def videos from Vimeo and other sources full screen on the TF, so I assume that youtube would work fine if I could get a good connection. I've always used openDNS, so that's not it. I can't even play 240p videos on Youtube any more.
Here is an interesting thread.
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/youtube/thread?tid=60d5dd88d1570daf&hl=en&start=40
and here is an official youtube video test page.
http://www.youtube.com/my_speed
I don't see an option to change it on the tf.
Log into your router and configure those two as your dns server....I'd bet your other devices will be thankful too.
If not you can always delete them!
Ok I don't seem to be having any buffering issues whatsoever anymore. The only thing I have noticed is that with HD videos you have to pause the videos before fast forwarding or rewinding if you want it to properly buffer. Other than that everything is working great!
I started noticing this buffering issue yesterday while trying to watch a HD clip.
It would do it every 10 seconds... so I started to do some searching.
Initially I suspected Android until I found this link.
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/youtube/thread?tid=4cd2cff3bad5f19d&hl=en
Then I realised PCs, ipads etc are also affected.
The strange thing is though that flash imbedded video works fine.
Now my question is, would Youtube which is owned by google be making it difficult for other companies that dont have flash? and did the Facebook app dissappear because Google+ started?
hmmm I wonder...
Hello everyone,
There's a strange problem with the device, I do not know if anyone else has come across it yet. As I know the device supports the flac file.
Both apps do not play flac files.
deezer plays some songs and then pops a message "the requested content is not loading"
This happens both through wfi and when I use the cellular network. I have no problem using a router for 4k content in Netflix. Deezer's technical support says they have no idea what I'm talking about.
I checked the app on Samsung A8 with the same router, the app works great.
I suspect it's something to do with settings, or a software problem.
I've tried so far:
1. Change the application management to manual management
2. Cancel lte volte
3. Delete and reinstall the app
4. Reset device to factory settings
Does anybody have any idea?
Thanks in advance
Not sure about FLAC, but I have Deezer and using with my P20 Pro (Canadian version) and do not have any trouble.
If you give some tips to test FLAC with my phone, I will do it quickly, I am curious.
I was under the impression that Deezer hifi wasn't available through the android app for normal download/streaming. It's only available for streaming to Chromecast or similar. At least that's the only options I have.
Saison2018 said:
Not sure about FLAC, but I have Deezer and using with my P20 Pro (Canadian version) and do not have any trouble.
If you give some tips to test FLAC with my phone, I will do it quickly, I am curious.
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you can look at my youtube video it will give you the impretiom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpEh6W7uiw0
you can try to upgrade your plan at deezer to wfi without cost(trail)
i dont have problems with the regular plan mp3 360 kbs
nor with spotify
thanks man
Gitbags said:
I was under the impression that Deezer hifi wasn't available through the android app for normal download/streaming. It's only available for streaming to Chromecast or similar. At least that's the only options I have.
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no.
deezer offering flac plan for andrid users as well.
this is the only reason i using this app.
tidal app making greater problems with hifi plan
you sould try it yourself.
this isnt happening instantly, its happening after few songs that are playing in the p20 pro.
if you will look in the web and run the error message "The request content cant load" deezer you will see others that reporting it.
yoadfe said:
you can look at my youtube video it will give you the impretiom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpEh6W7uiw0
you can try to upgrade your plan at deezer to wfi without cost(trail)
i dont have problems with the regular plan mp3 360 kbs
nor with spotify
thanks man
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My apologies, I am on Deezer Premium Trial and I can not switch to Hifi without being charged full cost.
Really sorry, I am really curious.
Hope someone could test and take us noticed.
I have no option to stream hifi, yet I have the correct account and can stream flac on my pc and squeezebox (ick stream).
And from what I can see from deezer's support android only works through casting to another supported device, otherwise it's 320kbs HQ
support.deezer.com/hc/en-gb/articles/115004588345-Deezer-HiFi
Even deezer's forum has stated that neither iOS or Android support direct steaming in Hifi yet.
en.deezercommunity.com/got-an-idea-9/hifi-compatibility-on-all-devices-1307/index5.html
Are you using your phone with headphones or Bluetooth? Or casting to another device?
Gitbags said:
I have no option to stream hifi, yet I have the correct account and can stream flac on my pc and squeezebox (ick stream).
And from what I can see from deezer's support android only works through casting to another supported device, otherwise it's 320kbs HQ
support.deezer.com/hc/en-gb/articles/115004588345-Deezer-HiFi
Even deezer's forum has stated that neither iOS or Android support direct steaming in Hifi yet.
en.deezercommunity.com/got-an-idea-9/hifi-compatibility-on-all-devices-1307/index5.html
Are you using your phone with headphones or Bluetooth? Or casting to another device?
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thanks for checking it up!
most of the time im streaming it via Bluetooth to my car head unit with no problems
the problems start when im using my p20 pro without streaming (no headphones as well)
question, even if android cant support hifi playing without streaming to another device
why my p20 pro is working and then after few songs getting jam? even more what kind of sound quality my p20 is outputting? cuz im still getting hifi symbol when im playing songs direct from the p20.
have you look at my video? you can see it.
another thing, its not ok that deezer dosent saying anything in the ad that show that hifi plan
its kind of stupid.
Just watched your video, HQ is 320kbs MP3 not flac I'm afraid.
As for the loading issue I can't say I've experienced any problems (UK based if it makes any difference) but I'll have a play and see if I can replicate it.
Gitbags said:
Just watched your video, HQ is 320kbs MP3 not flac I'm afraid.
As for the loading issue I can't say I've experienced any problems (UK based if it makes any difference) but I'll have a play and see if I can replicate it.
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i think i understand what happen.
i took the hifi plan via pc (this is why you didnt saw hifi plan option in your p20)
i think this is why my p20 is jaming when its playing music.
i didnt notice that hq =mp3
i think that they should have mention the android limitation in the plan page in advance
this is the only reason that i took it. in 2019 its funny that android cant do it direct
i should downgrade my plan
thanks mate
No worries.
I agree it's daft that they have limited their market for their hifi subscription by making it available through a select number of products. It does seem a pretty half-hearted attempt to compete with tidals flac streaming.
But allegedly it's coming......
Hi!
I have a problem that drives me mad: I have a m3u8 playlist with IPTV channels. I can watch TV on all of my mobile and home devices with this playlist - TV, PC, Mac, iPhone. But! If I play this playlist on my Galaxy Note 20 Ultra - video quality automatically switches (I don't know if I can call it 'adapt') to low bitrate: 5000 kbps with Wi-Fi and 500 kbps instead after turning Wi-Fi off.
4G quality is very stable and fast but it switches bitrate to low all the time! It's more weird because if I share this LTE connection from another device and start playing playlist with Wi-Fi connected - it doesn't degrade bitrate!
For the record:
- playlist plays fine without degrade with the same SIM card on iPhone 11 Pro Max.
- playlist plays fine without degrade with the same SIM card on Samsung Note 10+.
- playlist plays fine without degrade with the same SIM card on Samsung S8.
- playlist plays fine without degrade with the same SIM card on Samsung S8+.
But:
- playlist plays WITH degraded bitrate on Samsung Tab S7.
What are those new settings or parameters for Android Samsung applied that makes IPTV to degrade bitrate?
Thanks in advance.
A few things I can think of that may cause this.
What video player are you using? / Have you tried a different player?
Is video enhancer on in settings?
Does your carrier throttle video ect to 480? (Most do.) But won't always throttle Hotspot data.
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A few things I can think of that may cause this.
What video player are you using? / Have you tried a different player?
Is video enhancer on in settings?
Does your carrier throttle video ect to 480? (Most do.) But won't always throttle Hotspot data.
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Hi! Thank you for your reply.
1. OttPlayer / VLC - result is the same
2. Yes but I don't think it may be a reason (on Galaxy Note 10+ and S8/S8+ it's enabled too)
3. I've called my carrier's technical support but they said that my tariff doesn't throttle anything. Besides I've forgot to mention that problem persists on two different carriers (I've tried two different SIM cards).
So the problem is in Note 20 Ultra/ Tab S7 for sure. But what is the reason for trouble I can't get.
MaddKorben said:
Hi! Thank you for your reply.
1. OttPlayer / VLC - result is the same
2. Yes but I don't think it may be a reason (on Galaxy Note 10+ and S8/S8+ it's enabled too)
3. I've called my carrier's technical support but they said that my tariff doesn't throttle anything. Besides I've forgot to mention that problem persists on two different carriers (I've tried two different SIM cards).
So the problem is in Note 20 Ultra/ Tab S7 for sure. But what is the reason for trouble I can't get.
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Yes that is quite puzzling. I know that with most streaming apps. Like netflix, Youtube, disney+ the device chooses what quality of stream ti choose from while the host / server is usually streaming or atleast rendering multiple streams for it at different bitrates. (Basically this is agreeing that the device is just choosing a lower bitrate thinking there may be a network issue with the stream or speed issue.)
I haven't used VLC in a long while, but is there a way to force highest quality like in youtube / netflix? Curious if you can force it if it will play and buffer throughout?
Also what software version is your phone running currently? Last 4 and security update.
MaddKorben said:
Hi!
I have a problem that drives me mad: I have a m3u8 playlist with IPTV channels. I can watch TV on all of my mobile and home devices with this playlist - TV, PC, Mac, iPhone. But! If I play this playlist on my Galaxy Note 20 Ultra - video quality automatically switches (I don't know if I can call it 'adapt') to low bitrate: 5000 kbps with Wi-Fi and 500 kbps instead after turning Wi-Fi off.
4G quality is very stable and fast but it switches bitrate to low all the time! It's more weird because if I share this LTE connection from another device and start playing playlist with Wi-Fi connected - it doesn't degrade bitrate!
For the record:
- playlist plays fine without degrade with the same SIM card on iPhone 11 Pro Max.
- playlist plays fine without degrade with the same SIM card on Samsung Note 10+.
- playlist plays fine without degrade with the same SIM card on Samsung S8.
- playlist plays fine without degrade with the same SIM card on Samsung S8+.
But:
- playlist plays WITH degraded bitrate on Samsung Tab S7.
What are those new settings or parameters for Android Samsung applied that makes IPTV to degrade bitrate?
Thanks in advance.
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That's an interesting problem that only shows up on Samsung's new devices.
I have many questions though, like, how did you set up your devices, as new or from backup?
Does this only happen with IPTV or it also happens with other streaming apps?
Running any special dns or vpns?
Is data saver on?
Have you tried reseting network settings yet?
Have you tried disabling com.qualcomm.embms?
I was going to suggest checking data saver also.
Maybe even turn off optimization on battery usage for the app in use (or all together for testing). I have heard the optimizer loves to cause throttling issues for streams speed and everything else in between.
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That's an interesting problem that only shows up on Samsung's new devices.
I have many questions though, like, how did you set up your devices, as new or from backup?
Does this only happen with IPTV or it also happens with other streaming apps?
Running any special dns or vpns?
Is data saver on?
Have you tried reseting network settings yet?
Have you tried disabling com.qualcomm.embms?
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how did you set up your devices, as new or from backup?
As new.
Does this only happen with IPTV or it also happens with other streaming apps
Only with IPTV.
Running any special dns or vpns?
Nope. I'd like to remind that smartphones with the same SIM card and same settings but not Note 20 Ultra or Tab S7 show stream smoothly without degrading bitrate.
Have you tried reseting network settings yet?
Nope. What network settings do you mean?
Have you tried disabling com.qualcomm.embms
Nope. My devices built with Exynos onboard.
MaddKorben said:
how did you set up your devices, as new or from backup?
As new.
Does this only happen with IPTV or it also happens with other streaming apps
Only with IPTV.
Running any special dns or vpns?
Nope. I'd like to remind that smartphones with the same SIM card and same settings but not Note 20 Ultra or Tab S7 show stream smoothly without degrading bitrate.
Have you tried reseting network settings yet?
Nope. What network settings do you mean?
Have you tried disabling com.qualcomm.embms
Nope. My devices built with Exynos onboard.
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To reset network settings : it will revert all network changes to default
Settings»general management» reset» reset network settings
After reset network settings restart your phone see it improves.
Also do you mind posting a link to the IPTV Playlist so I can check it out on my devices too. You can post it here or Direct message
lennie said:
To reset network settings : it will revert all network changes to default
Settings»general management» reset» reset network settings
After reset network settings restart your phone see it improves.
Also do you mind posting a link to the IPTV Playlist so I can check it out on my devices too. You can post it here or Direct message
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Hi!
I've sent you private message with one of channels that degrades bitrate. Check it please.
Resetting network settings didn't make difference.
SrgWallopy said:
I was going to suggest checking data saver also.
Maybe even turn off optimization on battery usage for the app in use (or all together for testing). I have heard the optimizer loves to cause throttling issues for streams speed and everything else in between.
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Power mode I'm using is "Optimized".
SrgWallopy said:
Also what software version is your phone running currently? Last 4 and security update.
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ATJ1, 1st of October security patch.
MaddKorben said:
Power mode I'm using is "Optimized".
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I was thinking of removing the app from the optimize list so it can use full resources and not get throttled by the system.
Since the note 20 series has 'smart ai usage and optimization' it may be auto throttling for battery usage.
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ATJ1, 1st of October security patch.
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I've tried a number of different m3u8 streams (direct links) and find that VLC buffers A LOT with bit rate jumping all over the place 161 to 6200. A couple other players from the play store seems to play the stream just fine, not sure what's up with VLC.
lennie said:
I've tried a number of different m3u8 streams (direct links) and find that VLC buffers A LOT with bit rate jumping all over the place 161 to 6200. A couple other players from the play store seems to play the stream just fine, not sure what's up with VLC.
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What players did u try?
Can someone confirm (or not)this?? Still on note 9 here and was considering upgrading but this would make me waiting more.
And OP : can you try say iptv extreme to check your streams quality ? VLC not the best for iptv (not for me at least).
Envoyé de mon SM-N960F en utilisant Tapatalk
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What players did u try?
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I can't even remember all the ones I've tried but I've found that IPTV works great. I'll upload screenshots below.
I've tried the playlist you've PM'd me and it works just fine in IPTV. I find IPTV to be more comfortable to use and seems to do 60fps video stream I'm not too sure but it does seem like it. It shows the full playlist and is fast to load them (well most of them). It does buffer on some of the streams like sk* au streams and f*x streams but not so bad as when using VLC.
Just FYI I have a snapdragon device so we're sort of fundamentally using different devices so not sure if that has anything to do with it.
Caius_Marius said:
Can someone confirm (or not)this?? Still on note 9 here and was considering upgrading but this would make me waiting more.
And OP : can you try say iptv extreme to check your streams quality ? VLC not the best for iptv (not for me at least).
Envoyé de mon SM-N960F en utilisant Tapatalk
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Yeah iptv extreme does work. Quality is good too but just like in IPTV app some streams do buffer.
lennie said:
I can't even remember all the ones I've tried but I've found that IPTV works great. I'll upload screenshots below.
I've tried the playlist you've PM'd me and it works just fine in IPTV. I find IPTV to be more comfortable to use and seems to do 60fps video stream I'm not too sure but it does seem like it. It shows the full playlist and is fast to load them (well most of them). It does buffer on some of the streams like sk* au streams and f*x streams but not so bad as when using VLC.
Just FYI I have a snapdragon device so we're sort of fundamentally using different devices so not sure if that has anything to do with it.
Yeah iptv extreme does work. Quality is good too but just like in IPTV app some streams do buffer.
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I've tried IPTV Extreme and it does the same as other players so we can assume that the reason is not Stream or Player - it's device.
By the way I've uploaded screen rec to show what I meant: https://youtu.be/qwIN8LmFce4
OMG guys... I'm really confused how this could happen but I've found solution: it was about Samsung MAX app which provides free VPN! The point is: it has several tabs including Wi-Fi and Mobile connection settings. And default mobile option "Data saving mode" was turned on! That's why it was degrading bitrate! Unfortunately it didn't show any badges or window telling me that now I have data saving mode on or something.
So I'm really sorry and thank you for trying to help. It was my fault.