why is youtube so horrible on mobile

[mizzou]

The streaming almost always has no real buffer, which Imakes it impossible to watch something wity poor connection

Its impossible it seems to pause a video, let it load, and play lag free

Is this just me?

Droid incredible verizon 3g

 

[dpodblood]

I never had any issue with it, even on my old android phone in high quality mode over 3g. Maybe there's a problem with verizon. Wouldn't be the 1st time.

 

[mizzou]

I never had any issue with it, even on my old android phone in high quality mode over 3g. Maybe there's a problem with verizon. Wouldn't be the 1st time.

Its worse in my building where it frequently drops below 3g

 

[gsaldivar]

poor connection

Well, yea.

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

Youtube app or online?

 

[mizzou]

Youtube app or online?

Both

 

[dpodblood]

Sounds like you have a crappy connection. Nothing youtube can do to fix that.

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

Sounds like you have a crappy connection. Nothing youtube can do to fix that.

Youtube should scale the quality of the video based on the connection though.

 

[foghorn67]

I wonder about this too. I do fine watching Netflix. But youtube sucks.

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[shortylickens]

The Playbook is an awesome experience.

Well, except for email and calender.

 

[Bateluer]

Similar problems on both my Droid 1 and my TB. Why you can't simply pause and let it fully buffer the video, I have no idea. When I have a good solid connection, its not a big concern, but if I'm on 3G, its pretty bad. 4G and WiFi, usually no problem.

 

[dpodblood]

Youtube should scale the quality of the video based on the connection though.

I believe you can choose between high quality and low quality mode. Low quality mode is hardly worth watching. I wouldn't want to see it scale any lower than that.

 

[Genx87]

I have the same phone on Verizon and no issues.

 

[mammador]

Youtube works fine on my phone, via my home wi-fi. Little to no lag at all.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

I see this as a carrier issue and not a Youtube issue. Perhaps someone should benchmark and see how much bandwidth you need for the regular low quality video. It shouldn't be much.

My complaint is just that data connections on carriers are sporadic. You can get it for like 30 seconds and then it can pause for a solid 30 seconds. Even if you were getting great 4 bar reception and 3mbit downloads, the pause will kill you. I was working out to a routine I found on Youtube and it threw me off when Youtube died for like 1 minute trying to reconnect. I could've kept going but I didn't want it to come bakc and throw my routine off and then having to push teh time forward and wait for it to buffer again. Shrug.

Youtube already sucks for bandwidth issues (they've come a long way to improve that) even on wired connections. I've seen too many times where I struggle waiting on a 20mbit connection or something. I mean what do you expect on a mobile connection anyway?

 

[MagickMan]

Youtube looks great on my iPad2, no issues here.

 

[foghorn67]

I see this as a carrier issue and not a Youtube issue. Perhaps someone should benchmark and see how much bandwidth you need for the regular low quality video. It shouldn't be much.

My complaint is just that data connections on carriers are sporadic. You can get it for like 30 seconds and then it can pause for a solid 30 seconds. Even if you were getting great 4 bar reception and 3mbit downloads, the pause will kill you. I was working out to a routine I found on Youtube and it threw me off when Youtube died for like 1 minute trying to reconnect. I could've kept going but I didn't want it to come bakc and throw my routine off and then having to push teh time forward and wait for it to buffer again. Shrug.

Youtube already sucks for bandwidth issues (they've come a long way to improve that) even on wired connections. I've seen too many times where I struggle waiting on a 20mbit connection or something. I mean what do you expect on a mobile connection anyway?

I honestly don't think it's a carrier issue. Like I said above, my netflix does fine, youtube....not so much.

 

[fstime]

Is there any way to play a youtube video in the background?

When ever I try to multitask to another app the video stops, same thing when using the browser.

If I am listening to a song or something that doesn't require me to be actually watching the video it would be nice to let that run in the background while I do something else....

 

[kubani1]

i've never had an issue playing youtube on my desire s. no lag, not even on 3g with half signal.

 

[Zen0]

The Playbook is an awesome experience.

Well, except for email and calendar and everything else of importance.

Fixed (your spelling mistake as well).