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[Q] Youtube HD playback on 3.1

I haven't had a chance to update mine, does the 3.1 fix the issue with the Youtube HD video playback? it wasn't smooth on the 3.0.1.

on the App it was smooth.
Didnt get a chance to try it off the browser, but im reading people saying its still laggy

turbulent28 said:
on the App it was smooth.
Didnt get a chance to try it off the browser, but im reading people saying its still laggy
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That's disappointing..

YouTube app is much smoother, but it seems to pause a lot for buffering. So what's worse, pauses for buffering or choppy playback and missed frames?

ilgadets said:
YouTube app is much smoother, but it seems to pause a lot for buffering. So what's worse, pauses for buffering or choppy playback and missed frames?
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I can take buffering

my buffering and playback is fine, but I have FiOS.

seshmaru said:
my buffering and playback is fine, but I have FiOS.
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same here on the FIOS which makes me wonder how much of the choppy/buffering problems are based on wifi speed/strength.

So looks like the HD playback in the App is no longer choppy, I think it's good enough for me. Hope there is a fix for the x264 playback, but I guess I am asking for too much.

Just getting a chance to test this.
Video: Boyonce - Run The World
Youtube app in HD mode , no stutter or buffering
Youtube web site @ 720, slow framerate 10-15FPS
Can anyone tell me where on the app you can select the multiple resolutions that you see in the browser window. I don't know if I was watching the 720 or the 1080.

turbulent28 said:
same here on the FIOS which makes me wonder how much of the choppy/buffering problems are based on wifi speed/strength.
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What's the issue with FIOS? I thought it was crazy high speed. Is it high latency or something?

DevCake said:
What's the issue with FIOS? I thought it was crazy high speed. Is it high latency or something?
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i meant that perhaps signal strength and speed is probably whats giving people issues while streaming.
say for instance, if theyre trying to stream videos off a motel 6 wifi vs their own home service

what I meant was I have fios and no buffering issues which leads me to believe the person with buffering issues has a **** connection.

ilgadets said:
YouTube app is much smoother, but it seems to pause a lot for buffering. So what's worse, pauses for buffering or choppy playback and missed frames?
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I've noticed the buffering to be an issue with both 3.0.1 & 3.1. Not sure what the cause is, I don't think it's my network as it'll be stuck buffering one moment, then the next moment it has no issues.
My network is 20mbs and runs super fast with everything else...

Tenny said:
I've noticed the buffering to be an issue with both 3.0.1 & 3.1. Not sure what the cause is, I don't think it's my network as it'll be stuck buffering one moment, then the next moment it has no issues.
My network is 20mbs and runs super fast with everything else...
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I've seen this happen on my TF and on desktop and phone. It's an issue with youtube I think. Sometimes the intertubes get full. Reloading or waiting out the congestion is the only thing to do.
Also, no stuttering or lag of any kind on my TF as of 3.1. This puppy finally runs like it should.

I recently upgraded the latest (3.1) version and the Youtube's HD videos works smoothly. Not any jerks or continuous loading.

Has anyone noticed on the Youtube app that full screen orients only one way (with the Asus logo on top left). Even if I have the screen turned with the Asus logo on the bottom right, as soon as I hit the full screen, it will show upside down. This is with the Youtube app.

Linksys E4200 or other Wifi n router to play FullHD ?

Hi,
I've just received a few days ago my TF700 32Gb. Among other things, I tried to play some of my full hd movies from my Synology NAS.
Some played flawlessly and others don't (just a few meters away from my router, with a wall in between). I think my ISP proprietary modem-router is the bottleneck and want to buy a efficient Wifi router (but only if it does the trick).
Linksys E4200 seems to be rather fast in the 2.4GHz range and still have a rather strong throughput when distance grows.
Did someone tried the same experience (play a full hd, x264 mkv movie, let's say with a size over 10-12 MB) with such a router ?
Advices are welcome.
EDIT : I'm using BS Player pro as my video player.

delirii said:
Hi,
I've just received a few days ago my TF700 32Gb. Among other things, I tried to play some of my full hd movies from my Synology NAS.
Some played flawlessly and others don't (just a few meters away from my router, with a wall in between). I think my ISP proprietary modem-router is the bottleneck and want to buy a efficient Wifi router (but only if it does the trick).
Linksys E4200 seems to be rather fast in the 2.4GHz range and still have a rather strong throughput when distance grows.
Did someone tried the same experience (play a full hd, x264 mkv movie, let's say with a size over 10-12 MB) with such a router ?
Advices are welcome.
EDIT : I'm using BS Player pro as my video player.
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I have the Linksys E3500 + Synology NAS and have no problems streaming 1080P mkv movies. (using MXPlayer). Would definitely recommmend the setup. I'm not so sure about your current setup but on my end, i think the only bottleneck is actually the infinity. Every once in a while, i might get a blip or lag here or there. Haven't tried putting it in high-performance mode though so that might help.

Which protocol did it use (dlna, ftp or samba) to play the stream over the network?
Are you referring to decoding issues or wifi quality ?

I have a E4200 with two 9dbi antennas and stream using samba and it works fine with 720p. I'm using the old Dice player. I can't seem to get the 1080p to work. I just set it up. Thanks for reminding me that I was able to do it. I even tried bluetoothing the sound to my Jambox. And works great. Video decreases a little here and there with the bluetooth on but the majority of the time it's super crisp.
On a side note go on ebay and buy the 9dbi antennas $23. The best addition to that router you can do. I can walk an easy 150ft and pick up good signal outside of my brick house and my router is behind my computer desk in the corner. It's literally blocked by 2 walls and my computer desk.
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fatpandas said:
I have the Linksys E3500 + Synology NAS and have no problems streaming 1080P mkv movies
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Thanks. Good to know it can work with similar router (E3500 - E4200).
Redefined301 said:
Which protocol did it use (dlna, ftp or samba) to play the stream over the network?
Are you referring to decoding issues or wifi quality ?
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I'm using BSPlayer "Lan mode". I don't know exactly what kind of protocol it actually uses, but I think it is Samba. Anyway, as I'm going to root my tablet, just consider Samba as the protocol I'm going to use to stream content in the future. (I've got the same performance between SMB and NFS when playing with my XTreamer over a 500Mbits powerline plugs).
I'm referring to a decoding issue that is related to a too low wifi throughput (cause when playing in local, everything is smooth).
Eroc162 said:
I have a E4200 with two 9dbi antennas and stream using samba and it works fine with 720p.
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I wasn't aware of this option. Thanks mate for sharing this advice. It seems that the first gen E4200 need soldering, maybe your model is a E4200 v2?

[Q] I/O-speed improvement

So, the I/O-speed often is the bottleneck for the tf300. I knew this already, just like the most of you probably. It didn't bother me too much, as I didn't have a lot of issues because of it.
Lately I did start to encounter problems with it, because I started to use my tablet for streaming video. The result is that I can watch about 30 seconds of video, have to wait 30 seconds while the device is buffering, can watch another 30 seconds of video, wait for buffering again, and so on.... It seems the device is not capable to buffer while playing video. Well, you can imagine I don't have the patience nor the wish to watch any video till the end under these circumstances.
As I see and know that the network connection is just fine for streaming video capabilities (it works fine on my laptop and phone for instance), I am pretty sure the problems I have on the tf300 are due to the I/O-issues.
Now my specific question is: is there any solution or workaround to avoid lagging video streams because of these I/O speed issues?
And on a wider spectrum: Is there any way to improve overall I/O-speed performance on the tf300?
Any help is much appreciated.
FYI: My tf300 is rooted, but not unlocked. I prefer to keep it this way, unless there is no option at all to get around these issues without an unlocked device.

ralph075 said:
So, the I/O-speed often is the bottleneck for the tf300. I knew this already, just like the most of you probably. It didn't bother me too much, as I didn't have a lot of issues because of it.
Lately I did start to encounter problems with it, because I started to use my tablet for streaming video. The result is that I can watch about 30 seconds of video, have to wait 30 seconds while the device is buffering, can watch another 30 seconds of video, wait for buffering again, and so on....
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i/o can be a problem but this is a bit extreme even for a tf300, what kind of bitrate has that video? raw 4k?

NixZero said:
i/o can be a problem but this is a bit extreme even for a tf300, what kind of bitrate has that video? raw 4k?
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:laugh: No, it is not raw 4k.
The video-stream has a bitrate varying from 0,8 to 1,5 Mbit/s.

ralph075 said:
:laugh: No, it is not raw 4k.
The video-stream has a bitrate varying from 0,8 to 1,5 Mbit/s.
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I stream 1080p youtube videos on my tf300t just fine.

rickykemp said:
I stream 1080p youtube videos on my tf300t just fine.
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Me too. never had streaming issues on my tab

rickykemp said:
I stream 1080p youtube videos on my tf300t just fine.
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Those youtube videos don't play well on my tf300 either, I always have to 'untick' the HD or HQ button in the videos to play them smoothly.
Do you run stock Android with latest OTA updates on your tf300?

I do run stock indeed. Only rooted.

Well, I'll give it a try by completely factory-resetting my tf300. I doubt it will make a difference, but without trying I'll never know.

Resurrecting I see this thread was never resolved, and if the streaming was addressed elswhere I couldn't find it.
Picked up this tablet recently, 4.2.1 rooted stock. Youtube streaming is unwatchable in HD - not enough buffer, but handles HQ or lower fine. Can stream 1080P fine on my desktop, and HD fine on my Razr I and Arc S. Which makes me question, why the inability to cache enough of the video on the TF300T?

Learn from linux
Hmm I stumbled across a few articles, how to improve linux for netbooks. Some involved lowering the writeback to get better I/O-speeds while batterylife gets improved. Maybe one could figure out how much of this applys with Android and the eMMC drive in our tablet and tweak it accordingly.
Best regards.
Kalle.

I had no issues with surdu_petru's overclocked kernels, got around 10000 i.o (sio scheduler) in quadrant, in saying that that kernel got me a score of 7100 on quadrant overall which must be close to the best for tegra 3s?

Twitch streaming performance

So I searched the forum for 'Twitch' and wasn't able to find anything, and I'm seeing spotty answers to whether or not the MK 808/9 can handle streaming from Twitch.tv. I'm OK with fiddling with firmware as well as going Ethernet in order to get the results I'm after, but can anyone give me some real world information on how well these devices handle streaming from Twitch at 720 or 1080? I've spent a lot of time looking for solid answers to this question and I just can't seem to find anything.

u can watch 720p without a problem, but 1080p doesnt work.. too much stuttering
i increased cpu from 1200mhz to 1416mhz and its getting better, but unwatchable (maybe it works with 1.6ghz, but u will need a good cpu cooler, dunno )
so... if the twitch user streams in 1080p (or even higher) and u cant change the resolution.. you´ve got a problem.
iam using finless 1.7c firmware with 2dark4u 1080p Kernel, but im thinking in few months u can watch 1080p without a problem.
btw. 1080p Youtube videos work absolutly fine.
Edit: im using MK808

youtube issues

Hey guys i have a question for you about youtube playback on my one a9. it seem that my device cant buffer fast enough to play hd video. This happens on both my 4g lte with full bars and with my wifi twc 100 turbo. on my speed test.net i avg 80 and lte get in the high 50 low 60. by default it always starts playing at 144 then i switch to 1080 or even 720 and it just cant keep up.
Anyone else having this issue or have any help for me would be great

hondarider65 said:
Hey guys i have a question for you about youtube playback on my one a9. it seem that my device cant buffer fast enough to play hd video. This happens on both my 4g lte with full bars and with my wifi twc 100 turbo. on my speed test.net i avg 80 and lte get in the high 50 low 60. by default it always starts playing at 144 then i switch to 1080 or even 720 and it just cant keep up.
Anyone else having this issue or have any help for me would be great
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Are you running CyanogenMod 13? If so, switch back to stock ROM, I am currently facing issues with data speeds in cm13, and switching to stock helped... if you are already on the stock ROM, then you could do two things I can think of at the moment; 1) you just need to reboot, it refreshes the device and makes it better for a bit, 2) full wipe, it should help dearly with performance and may get rid of the cause of this problem