• Octopus1348@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This happens if you have a shitty Wi-Fi. Ours was replaced, but it was found out that it is even worse.

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      Even with high speed internet it seems to always default to 480p.

      It’ll update to 720p or 1080p a few minutes in sometimes. But in general it’s just a large inconvenience.

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        1 year ago

        Low quality saves cost for YouTube and YouTube thinks that you won’t notice the difference between 480p and 1080p on your phone. They don’t fuck with your quality on desktops because they know you’ll notice that

        • Vlyn@lemmy.world
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          But they do.

          For example on desktop if you skip through a video while it’s set to auto (1080p) at some point it will fall down to 480p. Maybe because YouTube thinks your connection has an issue, or maybe they just want to save bandwidth. If you manually set it to 1080p it stays there.

          The whole thing is annoying.

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            The player prioritizes smooth playback over quality. If you’re skipping through, you’re bypassing any buffer it’s built up, so it’ll drop the quality in order to be able to actually start playing sooner.

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          Pretty sure YouTube messes with it on desktops as well. Might default higher, but I had to use that advanced YouTube add on to force it to 1440p (or next highest) because it would constantly make me select it.

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        1 year ago

        I mean, if you’re using your phone, you’ll barely notice the difference. The only reason I care about higher resolution is because they’re the only options with 60fps.

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          Difference is definitely noticeable on modern phones. But the biggest issue is it will do this on desktop and tablets as well, where you will really notice the difference.

          And like you said, YouTube 480p mode doesn’t have 60fps. That’s noticeable regardless of screen size.

  • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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    It does the lowest it thinks it can get away with since less bandwidth saves them money. You need to train it that you actually want higher quality by changing it often. I use revanced to avoid the whole issue. (It also has handy 3x playback speed for slow talkers)

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    On the desktop version of youtube, automatic used to say that the quality was 480p or 720p, but when i switched to those qualities, the video looked much better

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    Yeah lots of “high resolution” videos with low bitrates that are essentially worse than dvd quality but already scaled the window size is bigger.