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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Testing it out and it defaults to 720p30 (30fps I assume). When I switch it to 1080p60, video playback begins to freeze/lag. So, sticking with revamced for now.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This seems to be a problem with every third-party YouTube client. NewPipe, LibreTube, and Piped all have the same issue for me. They desperately need better buffering logic. I suspect Google is doing something on their end to make this harder than it needs to be.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Didn't have an issue with NewPipe.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Newpipe is pretty slick, probably the best non revanced solution.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Been testing GrayJay since yesterday. It's also open source but a bit better since it supports subscriptions and more sources.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

As far as I remember, if the client does not say "hello" in a proper way, YT will limit the bandwidth to the point it's unwatchable. It sometimes affect NewPipe and Kodi.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

There is a setting for the default quality for unmetered and metered connections.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Been running it at 1080p no problem for several days.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

They video was quiet promising. However looking at the app website shows that what was a false promise. The app does track every single launch and sends that to their servers (see privacy policy) not legal without consent in the EU. Calling this "tracker free" is more than misleading here. I'd call it a lie actually.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://piped.video/watch?v=5DePDzfyWkw

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This send to be quite heavily marketed on here. So many threads on this app throughout my feed.

I dislike the use of a YouTube video over a web page, but that might just me being old fashioned

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah most apps are just webpages in a wrapper, so maybe they're going to do that.

It's even the same on desktop, like the discord, twitch or teams apps.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most is maybe not the best word to use here. Many desktop apps are browser-based these days, but it's fairly uncommon in the mobile landscape.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, most might be an overstatement, but uncommon is also not the reality, just did a quick Google search.

Webapps: Google Apps (Google Docs, Google Drive, Google Calender, etc.) Zoom Spotify YouTube Skype LinkedIn Amazon

Native apps: Instagram Ebay WhatsApp Blinkist McDonald’s App AirBnB TikTok

I don't really see a tendency there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

None of those are web-based on mobile.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm a native app developer for Android, which gives me some professional insight into what's web-based or not.

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