I did a video review on the DayDream VR. It's really neat, an I really like to use it for watching youtube while laying down facing up towards the ceiling. It is the most comfy way I have ever watched a video.
Also giving away my old VR headset by Shinecon since I do not need it anymore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdkp-yecVxg&t=172s
Mine is on the way, I can't wait
How do you get YouTube to centre when looking directly up towards ceiling? I can't seem to be able to do it?
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How do you get YouTube to centre when looking directly up towards ceiling? I can't seem to be able to do it?
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Play a video, hold down the track pad, and drag the video to wherever u want. U can also adjust the size of the YouTube video by swiping up or down on the track pad.
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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.
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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 a note, since I see there is a lot of interest in streaming video content on the G Tablet, with a bunch of people excited that we had the TV.com app working now that we have full market access.
Though we still have no Netflix, and you can hack your way into making Hulu sort-of work, Amazon Video On Demand works as is - it's all Flash video, and plays just fine on my G Tablet.
I just watched the first quarter of Hellboy and then watched a full episode of Lie to Me Season 2, which I already had in my Amazon Video Library from purchasing for my Roku.
Make sure you are on the full desktop Amazon site, not the mobile site (may need to change your User Agent depending on your browser configuration). Just click on Full Screen once the video player loads, and you'll get the movie you want in full screen glory.
Also, as with everything video-related, after sleeping and waking up, the G Tablet is a bit stuttery unless you use OverclockWidget to force the min clock speed higher. If that happens to you and you don't feel like using OCWidget, a quick reboot should solve the problem.
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Just a note, since I see there is a lot of interest in streaming video content on the G Tablet, with a bunch of people excited that we had the TV.com app working now that we have full market access.
Though we still have no Netflix, and you can hack your way into making Hulu sort-of work, Amazon Video On Demand works as is - it's all Flash video, and plays just fine on my G Tablet.
I just watched the first quarter of Hellboy and then watched a full episode of Lie to Me Season 2, which I already had in my Amazon Video Library from purchasing for my Roku.
Make sure you are on the full desktop Amazon site, not the mobile site (may need to change your User Agent depending on your browser configuration). Just click on Full Screen once the video player loads, and you'll get the movie you want in full screen glory.
Also, as with everything video-related, after sleeping and waking up, the G Tablet is a bit stuttery unless you use OverclockWidget to force the min clock speed higher. If that happens to you and you don't feel like using OCWidget, a quick reboot should solve the problem.
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Are you saying that Amazon Video On Demand can be streamed on the G Tab?
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Are you saying that Amazon Video On Demand can be streamed on the G Tab?
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I can't imagine any other way to interpret the original post.
I only ask because this will be my third infuse, first one the screen broke, second one was stolen.
I like the infuse however I am not a fan of these problems:
Can't play youtube videos in the background
Youtube videos, or other flash videos don't just start playing by themselves
So I was thinking about possibly another phone, though I love this phone (screen, camera and all)
I was also thinking about trying to flash ubuntu (it would be a PC! at least this what I think anyways)
I was just wondering if there were better phones out there under AT&T for the money, not sure if my insurance would allow me to jump from one phone to another so easily... need to talk to the guys at the shop.
Thanks for any input
I don't know what you mean by YouTube does not start by itself but no android phone let's you play a video in the background. I would keep the infuse but get insurance on it.
What I mean by that is
On a PC (desktop or laptop etc... pad even)
A video starts playing by itself when you click the link, or refresh the page, this is not so
I mean perhaps the flash hasn't quite gotten there yet and I should appreciate the fact that I can even stream youtube videos in the first place
And the other part is, once I have this clicking, as soon as I minimize the web (press home) the music stops, same thing happens when I press the power button
(I like to look up a lot of music on youtube and listen to it in the background) while performing other tasks
thanks for the reply
Flash on Android is suspended when out of focus. There's nothing you can do about this, and it's unlikely that will change since Flash was discontinued for all mobile platforms.
flash is discontinued. It it still works and is useable just won't be updated
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What I mean by that is
On a PC (desktop or laptop etc... pad even)
A video starts playing by itself when you click the link, or refresh the page, this is not so
I mean perhaps the flash hasn't quite gotten there yet and I should appreciate the fact that I can even stream youtube videos in the first place
And the other part is, once I have this clicking, as soon as I minimize the web (press home) the music stops, same thing happens when I press the power button
(I like to look up a lot of music on youtube and listen to it in the background) while performing other tasks
thanks for the reply
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unfortunately this isn't just an infuse issue. Most phones i've tried won't let you watch youtube videos in the background, only if it's the main app open.
Get another Infuse. They're great phones and dirt cheap now. The only other one that's remotely better than the Infuse and the same size is the Skyrocket, but that one is $250 at the moment...and AT&T doesn't seem to be handing them out cheaply. Or you can drop down in size and get the S2...but that one is still $199 because it's a good seller. We should be getting our official GB release sometime in December so grab another Infuse and help decrease the surplus inventory.
Since the new Youtube App was released (with the minimize video feature), I can't for the life of me figure out how to get to the Video info screen to upvote/downvote or read comments. Both arrows just minimize the video and tilting the Shield sideways does nothing.
I rolled back to the previous version of Youtube and if I tilt the Shield sideways, I can get to that screen and read comments, see related videos, etc. From the video itself, I can like/dislike using the menu key in the top right.
I'm sticking with the old version for now, but does someone know something I don't? Am I missing something with the new version, or is it pretty much impossible to do anything besides WATCH the video?
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Since the new Youtube App was released (with the minimize video feature), I can't for the life of me figure out how to get to the Video info screen to upvote/downvote or read comments. Both arrows just minimize the video and tilting the Shield sideways does nothing.
I rolled back to the previous version of Youtube and if I tilt the Shield sideways, I can get to that screen and read comments, see related videos, etc. From the video itself, I can like/dislike using the menu key in the top right.
I'm sticking with the old version for now, but does someone know something I don't? Am I missing something with the new version, or is it pretty much impossible to do anything besides WATCH the video?
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have you set the Shield to auto-rotate in the settings?
issues i've HAD with youtube, is that it doesn't stream well connected to some wifi. like at my work, i can't really run HD. Or if tethered to my phone, streaming will keeping trying to buffer every few sec/min.
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have you set the Shield to auto-rotate on the settings?
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It's definitely on because it rotates with the older Youtube app.
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It's definitely on because it rotates with the older Youtube app.
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but the new app won't rotate? i've noticed, rotation on Shield doesn't work very well...i'd have to kinda tap the whole device to get it to acknowledge. Lemme try it right now.
k here's a pic, on my screen it shows thumbs up/down...i was able to scroll through the comments too
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k here's a pic, on my screen it shows thumbs up/down...i was able to scroll through the comments too
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Odd. Mine wouldn't do that last night until I rolled back to the previous version of Youtube. I will have to try again.
Hey folks,
I have a Watch 4 with stand-alone LTE cell/data capability. I'm pretty disappointed that the options for music are pretty limited, but it is a watch after all. I'm a big fan of a couple of internet radio stations, however I can't get the Tune In app to install. As a workaround, I have bookmarked these individual stations and listen to their web players. However, they stop playing when my watch screen goes dark. I don't know a lot about the inner workings of my smart watch, but the battery life isn't the greatest. Short of turning the always on display on, do any of have other suggestions? I'm training for a marathon and only carry my watch with headphones and avoid carrying the phone as well, hence the purchase of the LTE cell version.
I had this same issue with my phone and installed a plug-in to allow playing audio after the screen turns off. I'll have to do some digging to find the name of it, but my point is that it should be possible to do on the watch. I just can't remember what it was called.
To be more specific, the solution I used was a web browser (Chromium) plug-in to play audio from YouTube podcasts, but it works with any audio from the web browser. You could probably find it just as fast as I can. I just can't remember which plug-in worked.
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To be more specific, the solution I used was a web browser (Chromium) plug-in to play audio from YouTube podcasts, but it works with any audio from the web browser. You could probably find it just as fast as I can. I just can't remember which plug-in worked.
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Taco-Thank you so much for your feedback. I'll do a search for Chrome plug in to play audio. Did you have to sideload Chrome with Easy Fire Tools? Do I need to be thinking along those lines as well or was this something downloaded from Play store?