Root [Virgin Mobile] Pixilated YouTube

[JonathanWhitey]

I have noticed That even on high quality, YouTube videos are pixilated. I assume this is because of the resolution of the device. Any work around/fix for this?

 

[Tejer]

I have noticed That even on high quality, YouTube videos are pixilated. I assume this is because of the resolution of the device. Any work around/fix for this?

Are you running on 3g or wifi/4g? On 3g even with HQ turned on it is still pretty grainy for me. On wifi (since the great state of AZ has not a drop of 4g yet) it is pretty clear and I wouldn't call it pixelated.

 

[JonathanWhitey]

Are you running on 3g or wifi/4g? On 3g even with HQ turned on it is still pretty grainy for me. On wifi (since the great state of AZ has not a drop of 4g yet) it is pretty clear and I wouldn't call it pixelated.

It's pretty dumb that the standard of hq is different for 3g

 

[Tejer]

It's pretty dumb that the standard of hq is different for 3g

I agree, I think it is lame as well. If I had to guess, this is because of how the Youtube app handles loading. My guess is that it renders only 'most' of the HQ video at the point you are at then starts playing it in a semi hq-ish setting. If you were to let the entire video load before playing it, it may actually look as good as if it were on wifi. But that's if you have 8 hours to render a 30 second video

 

[kwknott]

I can't even get YouTube to load videos. I can browse but when I try to play one it just says "Connection to Server Lost"

 

[JonathanWhitey]

I can't even get YouTube to load videos. I can browse but when I try to play one it just says "Connection to Server Lost"

I used to get that too but it fixed itself one day. I used to not be able to load any media that wasn't live or stored on my device but it works fine now.

 

[SteboMT]

It's your bandwidth on 3G probably. When on 4G or WiFi, I get clear video. Streaming servers downgrade according to your speed.