Help Poor YouTube Player Video Quality

[darthkir]

When I play youtube with the std youtube player in the galaxy, how come the video quality is poor compare to pc viewing?

Pls advise.

 

[mikedt]

My Youtube videos certainly look as good on my S as they do on a PC, same with other YouTube videos that I've watched on the S.

You're not comparing YouTube HD videos you watch on your PC, to the ones you see on your S are you? Because the S does not do YouTube HD.

 

[darthkir]

My Youtube videos certainly look as good on my S as they do on a PC, same with other YouTube videos that I've watched on the S.

You're not comparing YouTube HD videos you watch on your PC, to the ones you see on your S are you? Because the S does not do YouTube HD.

No, not the HD ones. I am baffled as to what is causing this. Is there any other way to test this, perhaps with other player?

 

[hogofddyn_]

Do you have Wi-fi enabled?

My Galaxy S was set to play the lowest quality stream by default when youtubing over the mobile data network, but the high quality version when using Wi-fi.

Guess it's a bandwith saving measure.

 

[darthkir]

Do you have Wi-fi enabled?

My Galaxy S was set to play the lowest quality stream by default when youtubing over the mobile data network, but the high quality version when using Wi-fi.

Guess it's a bandwith saving measure.

No this is on 3G, have yet to test on wi-fi now that u have mentioned it. Where is this setting? I dont recall seing it in the app setting.

 

[singsong]

You can select from the menu button operation to view in HQ mode.

 

[ilikeeverythin]

For anyone having problems on their Galaxy Nexus viewing YouTube videos in High Quality read this:

I was having issues from the the first day I couldn't get youtube videos to come in high quality - didn't matter if I went to youtube on the browser version - they looked terrible, like I was on my old blackberry -lol.

The fix for me was when I went into settings>apps and then all apps - then I cleared all the cache and data and presto -- I was able to view high quality youtube videos.

Hope this helps some people out.