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Video Playback - especially YouTube

Grinder16

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Oct 14, 2009
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Anyone else find the play back have awful quality? especially for a higher end phone like this one. my playback has the lowest quality I have seen in a phone in a long time. Pre had much clearer resolution. Is there a player in the market that helps with higher resolution?
 
Anyone else find the play back have awful quality? especially for a higher end phone like this one. my playback has the lowest quality I have seen in a phone in a long time. Pre had much clearer resolution. Is there a player in the market that helps with higher resolution?

I have the same issue and question....it seems like the video playback of the Hero is dismal...maybe a market (or non market) app?? Anyone with insight???
 
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The Youtube app actually has a switch to make the video play in higher resolution. Just click Menu and you'll see. It's actually quite stunning - both video and audio are excellent in high res.

This option is set to low quality if you're off wifi and high quality if you're on wifi, automatically.

Note that only the Youtube app itself has this feature. Apps like TuneWiki play low quality and it's up to them to make it better.
 
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The high res option is only available for the actually YouTube native app. Like said before press menu while a video is playing then more and select high quality. If you are browsing the net and click on a video it uses the HTC Flash Player and this option is not available.

So if someone posts a youtube link on facebook, and I click the link, that is the flash player and not youtube?
 
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