When watching a video on YouTube, you can change the quality of the video, and you can also configure it in your account so that the highest quality on YouTube is automatically turned on when you turn on the video.
Setting quality when watching videos
If you think that your video quality on YouTube is poor, then to improve the quality on YouTube you need to click on the settings button in the form of a gear.
Watch youtube in HD quality
In the context menu that appears, in the “Quality” item, select the desired quality from the drop-down list. Within a second, the quality will change and you will watch the video on YouTube in good quality.
Setting video quality through your account
To immediately watch a video on YouTube in good quality when you turn it on, you need to do the following. First you need After registering on YouTube, log into your account. A settings button in the form of a gear will appear next to the “Add Video” button. Click on this gear.
Youtube quality setting In the context menu that appears, select “YouTube Settings”. The account settings page opens.
YouTube account settings In the left menu, click “Playback”. On the page that opens, in the paragraph called “Improve playback quality,” put a dot next to the item “Always choose the best quality for my connection and player size” and check the box next to “Always play HD videos in full screen mode.”
Change bad quality to HD on youtube Those who use Youtube more or less “professionally” are constantly faced with a deterioration in the quality of videos after uploading. Videos with a lot of movement especially suffer - the bitrate is not enough to reproduce them normally.
The problem here is not the compression parameters of your files and codecs, don’t rack your brains, this has already been done before you. If you download a good 1080p source with a bitrate of 30-50 Mb/s, and the output from Youtube is about 6-7 Mb/s, then the problem is definitely not yours :)
Eh, Google...
You can, of course, go to Vimeo, buy a paid account and screw everyone. But I don’t like the socialization there. YouTube is more popular, accessible, etc. So I tried to figure out how to get the most out of YouTube.
In theory, Youtube "optimizes" the files. Well, now there is a lot of mobile traffic, etc. In practice, quality is killed. In my experience, it is 1080p that suffers the most - this is the most popular HD format, and after loading it turns out to be simply disgustingly neutered.
Look, here are two screenshots - the first was taken from the original, the second from a file downloaded from Youtube (using the convenient, simple and free 4K Video Downloader application, I highly recommend it, available for Win and Mac).
Original (100% fragment):
I uploaded this source to Yandex disk: https://yadi.sk/i/UoiDJtS1gJHjq
And exit from Youtube (100% fragment):
How it looks on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF9iDjGIhZQ
It can be seen that there is practically nothing left of the original quality. The bitrate decreased from 34 to 4 megabits - that is, more than eight times!
You need to understand that increasing the source bitrate when rendering above 20-30 Mb/s is practically useless - it will still be recalculated and compressed by YouTube into the same 4-6 Mb/s.
At the same time, another thing is clear - it is still inhumane to increase the bitrate of the Internet stream too much - for many users the download will be very long, and not all mobile devices will handle playback normally. It’s bad that we can no longer manage quality.
But there is one trick. If, when exporting from the editing room, you set the video size to be slightly larger than 1080p, then Youtube seems to switch to a higher bitrate.
For the experiment, I rendered the same video in a resolution of 2048x1152. It is clear that there will be interpolation, which in itself will not add quality, but we are trying to deceive YouTube and switch it to an increased bitrate without critically inflating the source.
After rendering, we receive a slightly larger file (about 700 MB), upload it to Youtube. And although when playing a video in the settings we see the same 1080p option, the picture ultimately turns out to be much better in quality (the video is saved from Youtube in “2K” format, the player window is reduced to 1080p):
With a slight increase in the source, the conversion bitrate more than doubled - from 4 to 10 Mb/s, and it seems to me that this is a reasonable limit for Internet downloading.
This is what the uploaded video looks like on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ElvfhfFL5o(don't forget to enable 1080p in settings).
Not ideal, of course, but for 10 Mb/s it is more than adequate.
We must also understand that the problem of low bitrate is, of course, not relevant for all videos. I have a difficult case here - there is a lot of movement across the frame area, and to improve grading I added a little grain, which in itself eats up the useful amount of the video stream.
So far, I know only this way to increase the quality of videos to something more or less watchable. If you have any ideas of your own, I will be glad to receive your comments.
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How to increase the quality of videos when watching on YouTube video hosting. Everyone has probably noticed that sometimes when watching a video, its quality can change for the worse; you will learn how to avoid this by reading this article.
You will also understand why the video slows down and what needs to be done for comfortable viewing without any freezes. You’ll also learn what annotations are and why it’s better to disable them, and as a bonus, I’ll provide an overview of YouTub hotkeys.
Improve video quality
In fact, everything is very simple, I think many people were able to get rid of this problem on their own. The fact is that the default settings include the Auto Adjust viewing mode, which is where the whole problem with video quality lies.
In order to change the video quality on YouTube, you need to click on the gear and a window will open where you just need to change the checkbox.
If you set it to 720, the video will be shown in HD quality. But if the Internet is weak, it simply won’t support this format, so play around with the settings; perhaps the optimal solution for you will still be Auto Configuration.
How to get rid of freezes
Well, for those whose video constantly freezes, you should go into the settings again, perhaps the highest HD resolution is there, change it to auto.
If it doesn’t help, try experimenting from 360 to a minimum of 144. I advise you to definitely read the article “”, it will also help you cope with the problem when viewing.
Disable annotations
Annotations and alerts are information from the author of the video that supplements his video with text blocks or links to his other video.
Very often, all this looks intrusive, covering the entire visible part of the video, thereby interfering with viewing, sometimes even annoying with such intrusiveness.
To disable it, you need to click on your avatar in the upper right corner of your profile (you must have one), then click on the gear in the window.
In the menu that opens, select Playback and uncheck Show video annotations and alerts. Don't forget to save your actions.
YouTube hotkeys
F – expand to full screen.
J – rewind 10 seconds.
L – rewind 10 seconds.
M – turn on/off sound.
Home or zero start over.
Key + – increases the font size of the subtitles.
The — — key decreases the subtitle font size.
Numbers from 1 to 9 – jump from 10% to 90% forward.
Space key – pause.
End key – goes to the end.
With these simple steps you can improve the quality of your YouTube video or, on the contrary, reduce it based on the speed of your Internet connection. That's all for now, everyone!
All users watch YouTube videos on Android tablets and smartphones. But the quality of this very viewing does not suit everyone and not always, especially if problems with communication occur during the process.
In fact, this situation is very familiar to everyone who has a smartphone or tablet: as soon as you go to YouTube and launch a video, a rotating ring appears on the screen, killing both the process of downloading the file and any desire to watch it.
It's infuriating. But nothing can be done. Was. Until recently. Now there is an adequate method to combat this phenomenon.
How was it before? When playing a video from YouTube on an Android device, the user could only change one single parameter in the settings - video quality, i.e. you could choose either HD or leave everything as is, and then YouTube allegedly automatically selected settings that should optimally match the technical capabilities of the device and/or the available communication channel.
It is clear that business and pleasure were not always combined, hence all the slowdowns and problems during playback. But this is already in the past.
Apparently, someone at Google decided that in the era of ubiquitous WiFi and the rapid development of 4G LTE networks, it would be possible to give Android users more freedom in choosing the quality options with which they can watch videos on their mobile devices. One way or another, YouTube was recently updated, and now the resolution of videos in it can change not only from regular computers, but also from tablets.
Why and how to do this?
Well, here's just one simple example. Imagine that you watch videos from YouTube on an Android tablet not through the usual (and high-quality) home or office WiFi, and not even through the fashionable and expensive foreign 4G LTE, but through a 3G connection from one of the domestic telecom operators, moreover, while in an area where there are few people and one cannot categorically expect records in data transfer speeds from the available communication channel. Introduced?
Now try to predict how much of your time you will spend contemplating the stupidly spinning wheel on the screen of your new Galaxy Note PRO, Sony Tablet or Lenovo Yoga? That’s the whole answer... (by the way, here’s the prices for tablets in the online store).
And in order not to overheat the nervous system, you just need to update the YouTube mobile application. Further work with video playback settings is extremely simple.
Open the application and go to the settings menu (3 dots in the upper right corner of the screen) and in the window that pops up we see only three icons: letters SS (Closed Caption, i.e. subtitles), nut(Settings- settings) and checkbox (Flag Video- Watch later).
Click " Settings" and see a list of available options. Google now allows you to choose the resolution at which you can run the video (all the same as in regular YouTube - 144p, 240p, 480, 720p or 1080p HD, depending on the original file parameters).
Those. Now you can personally determine the compromise between file download speed and image quality on the screen. Simply put, in order not to download a huge FullHD (which, moreover, not every tablet will show) via 3G, you can stop at a pretty decent 480 points, with which videos from YouTube on an Android tablet and/or smartphone are guaranteed to load without problems.
To be fair, we note that there are plenty of mobile applications with similar functionality from third-party developers on the Internet, and many Android users have been using them for a long time and successfully.
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