Embedded YouTube Quality - Moto X Q&A

Hey folks,
I've tried searching around on the google machine and here for this but I've been coming up empty handed.
When watching a embedded YouTube video through the stock Chrome Browser the video quality is terrible and looks like maybe only 240p. On my Nexus 7 on Chrome Browser, the quality will change based on connection speed within a few seconds. My stock Moto X does not do this either on 4G or wifi. If I watch the video on the YouTube website through Chrome plays perfectly as well as the Application. I found no settings to change the quality of the embedded videos in chromes minimal settings menu.
I've resorted to long pressing on the video, grabbing the link, pasting it and watching it on the YouTube mobile site which is tedious and should not be necessary.
Any tips or suggestions as to how to get the quality to improve. Or does anyone else have this same experience?

Any ideas...?

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streaming video to G1

looked around and didnt see a post here in the g1 forum but it is possible to stream movies from your computer to your G1. just go to www.orb.com and your set. best of all its FREE!
can you be a little be more specific, it will be helpfull if you explein a little a couple of steps for this and how can you watch it on the g1.
note: I'm not trying to be ungreatfull
I just try it and is GOOD (running it, on my wifi) a little slow when watching a video but defenitly watchable, I think if they develope a software for the android like the one for Iphone this will be a killer application.
In order to use it you just have to download the software from the site and create an account, share your media files videos, mp3s, pics, documents and even your computer webcam. allow it in your firewall. Then just log in from your g1 browser, and you are good to go and enjoying all your files in your g1.
I used to use this all the time with my Wing and Tilt. Unfortunately, the video has issues. It doesn't work on the G1 through 3G as of yet. Rumors have it that Orb is in the process of developing an app... but that was spread around back in November. Who knows what happened with it since.
Be also interesting to see devices as PMP's with video out capabilities... something like vPOD's
I am able to get the video started over 3G but the video player keeps telling me "Sorry this video can not be played". I still hear the audio but the video always freezes on the first frame. Has anyone else tried this and got it to work?
Yatyas said:
I am able to get the video started over 3G but the video player keeps telling me "Sorry this video can not be played". I still hear the audio but the video always freezes on the first frame. Has anyone else tried this and got it to work?
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Same problem I've had. I have been able to get a couple videos to play correctly, but I have not been able to figure out why they played and nothing else would. Oddly enough, even the ones that would play once would not play a second time.
you can do this with "gmote" also it much easyer
Androrb was just released. Check it out.
Has anyone been able to stream to the G1 using VLC?
I have tried using the same settings as the ones from the G1 video encoding thread (and lower), but it just won't play.
(I know the OP posted about Orb, but with such a generic thread title, this shouldn't count as off topic or thread stealing...)
I do want a DLNA / UPnP app for Android. I can get Tveristy working for streaming music, but it won't stream & transcode video.
mr_notorious said:
I do want a DLNA / UPnP app for Android. I can get Tveristy working for streaming music, but it won't stream & transcode video.
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I've gotten this to work in VLC in my LAN but not from outside yet. It took me forever to get this far, and I kinda just chalked it up as progress, and haven't done much with it since. Use the rtsp address in NSW or Meridian or whatever on your phone.
need to set h264 to 1,2 baseline and audio to aac in advanced settings first
Code:
:sout=#transcode{soverlay,ab=42,samplerate=44100,channels=1,acodec=mp4a,vcodec=h264,width=320,height=180,vfilter="canvas{width=320,height=180,aspect=16:9}",fps=25,vb=200,venc=x264{vbv-bufsize=500,partitions=all,level=12,no-cabac,subme=7,threads=4,ref=2,mixed-refs=1,bframes=0,min-keyint=1,keyint=50,trellis=2,direct=auto,qcomp=0.0,qpmax=51}}:gather:rtp{mp4a-latm,sdp=rtsp://0.0.0.0:5554/stream.sdp}
In your Android video player:
Code:
rtsp://local.server.address:5554/stream.sdp
Is T-Mobile blocking ports? I just tried that method in VLC and it works great with WiFi on, but with 3G I can't get anything.

Replacing Browser Video Player

Is there a way to set another video player as the default in the browser? I'm trying to watch videos through ORB and they appear as a small square rather than an expanded video...
commandercup said:
Is there a way to set another video player as the default in the browser? I'm trying to watch videos through ORB and they appear as a small square rather than an expanded video...
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I not familiar with orb. But is there a high quality option as Youtube had a similar issue. When the video was playing in low quality at default, you needed to press the menu button to choose High quality so it would play in full screen.
I thought there was an orb application in the market have you checked it out?

[Q] Problems with mobile youtube site

About two weeks ago, I was able to view youtube videos in a native youtube video player on the mobile site from my android browser. Now every time I go to the mobile site I either can't even click on the video or a second, smaller (play video) button pops up slightly below the video that gives me the videos in a lower quality resolution. I'm running 2.2. I miss having this native viewing ability.
I don't think it's a problem with default apps either. I've reset just about every default that I can and it's still happening. ugh.

How do you change the default video player??

Hi Folks,
Does anyone know?
In Settings > Apps there's no default video player displayed. In Settings > Apps > Configure Apps there's no "video app"... There's configuration for Home App (Launcher), Browser, Phone, SMS, Camera, Gallery, Music and Mail. No video?
The stock video player is pretty lame so I'd like to use something decent like MX, VLC?
Thanks in advance
mdb said:
Hi Folks,
Does anyone know?
In Settings > Apps there's no default video player displayed. In Settings > Apps > Configure Apps there's no "video app"... There's configuration for Home App (Launcher), Browser, Phone, SMS, Camera, Gallery, Music and Mail. No video?
The stock video player is pretty lame so I'd like to use something decent like MX, VLC?
Thanks in advance
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Settings - Apps - 3 button menu-- Reset app preferences .
It basically removes all the defaults . And next time you watch a video ,, it will ask you which player to use.
Settings - Apps - 3 button menu-- Reset app preferences .
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Thanks for the reply, but nope it doesn't work - it still loads up the default video player? I can't believe Oneplus doesn't give you the option of choosing the video player... I should add this is only in browser streaming.
mdb said:
Thanks for the reply, but nope it doesn't work - it still loads up the default video player? I can't believe Oneplus doesn't give you the option of choosing the video player... I should add this is only in browser streaming.
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To my knowledge, in Browser streaming, the browser-built-in player is used and not the player that comes with your ROM. I may be wrong, though.
tnsmani said:
To my knowledge, in Browser streaming, the browser-built-in player is used and not the player that comes with your ROM. I may be wrong, though.
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I figured out what the problem is and it was really quite a simple one which I've spent hours on...
On my old HTC M7s I have Dolphin as my main browser... I've also got the Jetpack add-on installed that includes a media player which plays flash. It's this player that is loading up for the majority of videos I view on that phone... What has me a little stumped is that it also loads up in Chrome too. I downloaded Firefox to the M7 today and it didn't load videos in the media player - it played them in Firefox's native media player. It was the same process as the Oneplus 3 so it got me thinking.
I think if the media player hadn't loaded in Chrome as well it would have been a lot quicker to work out that this was a "Dolphin only" add-on perk.
Sadly the Jetpack isn't supported in Nougat.
It's not a big deal but we've no choice (as fair as I know) but to watch any videos in the normal browsers' players... Which don't have the on-screen brightness / sound / video search capabilities like you see on the stand alone players like VLC and MX Player.
If anyone has any other ideas :good:
FYI: I've tried Puffin and Photon.
Just a shame browser vendors don't give you the option to view web videos in an alternative app as default. Firefox is really the only browser that sort of half offers that option.
Not sure if this might work, but you can try an app called better open with. You can set defaults for certain type of file types like video stream, audio stream, PDF, etc. Either way, better open with is a better alternative than the stock defualts dialog.

Video player with screen mirror background play?

I love using the stock video player on my note 8, especially being able to screen mirror a movie AND still use the phone in a normal manor without disrupting the film. Only negative is it's terrible when it comes to codecs.
Anybody know of an app/or a way were I can play any movie regardless of codec and be able to screen mirror in the background? I've tried loads but none have that one feature the stock video player has.
Any help would be appreciated!
mike710_0 said:
I love using the stock video player on my note 8, especially being able to screen mirror a movie AND still use the phone in a normal manor without disrupting the film. Only negative is it's terrible when it comes to codecs.
Anybody know of an app/or a way were I can play any movie regardless of codec and be able to screen mirror in the background? I've tried loads but none have that one feature the stock video player has.
Any help would be appreciated!
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Mostly, it depends of the device you are trying to mirror. For example, if you have a smart TV with mirrorcast you can send videos in background with YouTube vanced, the same for Roku.
It's a downloaded film to my devices internal memory so YouTube Vanced wouldn't work in this scenario

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