http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0jL5dwn-AE
Vid taken from Motorola Droid. Not sure how to embed it in this forum.
Playing around with Qik for a bit. I was under the impression that Qik is supposed to provide 2-way "vid chat", which it doesn't. It uses your Evo's FRONT camera (not the 8 megapixel cam on the back) or BACK camera to stream a live video to the web.
As you can see, there is noticeable lag. I don't think it's possible to view the live stream on another smartphone using either the browser or Qik. I can only view my live video feed from my desktop.
Streaming video hasn't been enabled yet, but *will* be a feature of the service in the coming weeks(ish)
pingpongboss said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0jL5dwn-AE
Vid taken from Motorola Droid. Not sure how to embed it in this forum.
Playing around with Qik for a bit. I was under the impression that Qik is supposed to provide 2-way "vid chat", which it doesn't. It uses your Evo's FRONT camera (not the 8 megapixel cam on the back) or BACK camera to stream a live video to the web.
As you can see, there is noticeable lag. I don't think it's possible to view the live stream on another smartphone using either the browser or Qik. I can only view my live video feed from my desktop.
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Video chat hasn't been implemented yet
Whats stopping another evo 4g user from opening your feed from his phone, and you vice versa while you are both streaming? It would be a few seconds off but eh, it beats waiting.
rekphiv said:
Whats stopping another evo 4g user from opening your feed from his phone, and you vice versa while you are both streaming? It would be a few seconds off but eh, it beats waiting.
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Well it would be something more like 1 minute off if you're both on 3G I'd think.
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Hi, A big problem I had with the iPhone was the video compression when streaming video in applications such as youtube.
I thought there would be less or no compression on the Nexus One since the higher resolution makes the video look even more appalling and I can't even make out what's happening.
I was wondering whether there was an option or an app which lets me disable this or lessen the compression so that I can actually make out what's happening in a video rather than staring intently at blocks and smudges. (forgive me for hypocritically pointing out the irony that that's what we do: [pixels and colours])
once you choose a video in youtube press Menu > watch in high quality. and prepare to be amazed.
Yeah the HQ videos look amazing, i havent tried other sites yet. The video adobe put out of flash running on Android looked pretty damn good too, cant wait for that.
is there any way to get it by default to always go to high quality
not that I know of.
After i set it to HQ its played all the videos in that format as far as i can tell, obviously it depends on the quality of the video the person uploaded
melterx12 said:
once you choose a video in youtube press Menu > watch in high quality. and prepare to be amazed.
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Thanks for that, the videos look amazing!
But what about things like the BBC Iplayer app, and images on the web?
browser images are not compressed at all. I dont know about iplayer i never tried it.
Antiskunk said:
Hi, A big problem I had with the iPhone was the video compression when streaming video in applications such as youtube.
I thought there would be less or no compression on the Nexus One since the higher resolution makes the video look even more appalling and I can't even make out what's happening.
I was wondering whether there was an option or an app which lets me disable this or lessen the compression so that I can actually make out what's happening in a video rather than staring intently at blocks and smudges. (forgive me for hypocritically pointing out the irony that that's what we do: [pixels and colours])
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The bitrate of a given video stream in a given app has next to nothing to do with the native resolution of the screen you display it on.
Specifically, most mobile video streaming app will ask for a low bitrate (highly compressed, grungy looking) stream when they detect that the device in not on wi-fi and will request a higher bitrate stream when on wi-fi, if you are lucky (I.E. in the android youtube app) they will let you override this automatic choice.
I.E. video quality is a function of the source streams available, the app requesting/displaying the stream and the bandwidth available on the device's network connection.
Only _after_ all of that is it possible for the screen to make much difference (and they generally don't).
melterx12 said:
browser images are not compressed at all. I dont know about iplayer i never tried it.
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Hmm, this sucks. According to my brother all UK networks compress images and videos (presumably so they don't have to upgrade their basestations/backhaul anytime soon ¬¬), with the possible exception of Three UK as they have the largest bandwidth available in the UK.
I guess there's no way around that, unless there's some sort of proxy or something?
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Hmm, this sucks. According to my brother all UK networks compress images and videos (presumably so they don't have to upgrade their basestations/backhaul anytime soon ¬¬), with the possible exception of Three UK as they have the largest bandwidth available in the UK.
I guess there's no way around that, unless there's some sort of proxy or something?
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Thats right Three UK doesn't as i get same quality of the video as on WiFi.
No youtube HD apparently.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2367811,00.asp
"One painful omission is YouTube HQ, which Sprint made such a big deal about when they introduced the EVO. On the Epic, the YouTube app is unwatchable; it's a hideous mush of blocky compression. I don't understand why Sprint didn't give the Epic the same sharp YouTube video quality that the EVO has."
Port please?
kennethlongshaw said:
No youtube HD apparently.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2367811,00.asp
"One painful omission is YouTube HQ, which Sprint made such a big deal about when they introduced the EVO. On the Epic, the YouTube app is unwatchable; it's a hideous mush of blocky compression. I don't understand why Sprint didn't give the Epic the same sharp YouTube video quality that the EVO has."
Port please?
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You can click menu and watch in high quality, problem solved.
http://androidforums.com/1387931-post8.html
FYI: that android link goes to the post with a direct download to an .apk file that replaces your current youtube with the requested youtube hq. you still need to select high quality but it comes in the form of a button directly on the screen rather than going into the menu. worked like a champ and worth the quick fix.
Thank you for the YoutubeHD link! I was missing this version from Froyo! Much easier for the button to be on screen rather than hidden in the menu.
Thanks for the link!
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Great, I switched to the youtube HQ app and now playback stutters in HQ mode. The old app played HQ much smoother. I was only looking to have the HQ setting be permanent, but I'd rather deal with having to set it manually than the crap I'm getting now
edit: nm, seems to have fixed itself! That always happens after I ask in public how to fix something..
double edit: or rather, it seems to be one video in particular that plays stuttery.. oh well, whatever..
Does this app work for a non-rooted Epic?
motog35 said:
Does this app work for a non-rooted Epic?
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Yea, I can confirm that it works on my non-rooted epic.
The other day I was going at it with a friend of mine who ones an iPhone 4 (I got Evo 2.2). Youtube app let me down.
When you pause a video the downloading bar also pauses. It makes you think it also paused the download of the video to cache. His iPhone 4 showed the video pause but still downloading. He scored a victory .
After further review I noticed that video does continue downloading to cache while paused but the bar stops displaying the download. After you click the play button again one can see where the download is actually gone to in the bar.
I was wondering if this is only on my Evo of is it a bug of the app. Anyone else has this issue???
weehooherod said:
We all have this, its just the application. I personally think the YouTube application is trash. If you ever try to rewind then the app throws away all the cache of the video and makes you redownload it and the subscriptions feature is confusing and doesn't just show new unwatched videos like it should.
Using YouTube's mobile site is actually better, I hope some work will go into the YouTube app though.
Edit: I'm using CM6 8/24 nightly with the latest 8/17 gApps package.
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Yeah the New Youtube app is junk.. I hate not being able to see certain channels by default, the TP2 youtube app was soo much better.
When My friend shows me his IPhone 4 youtube app, I say to him.. is your Optimized for HD? he was like ... umm.. should be..... The picture turned out amazing on my evo.. he was still trying to do HD...
Videos don't look as good thru the browser. Blame it on flash. The app displays the hq videos much better.
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Videos don't look as good thru the browser. Blame it on flash. The app displays the hq videos much better.
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Mine never goes through flash when I go to the site. I hit the HQ button and it uses some streaming video player to actually play the video, not sure exactly what app, but its really bare bones. I get decent quality.
Yeah the YouTube player sucks. Wonder why there isnt a better YouTube player or more to choose from.
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I wanted to see if anyone has been able to have by default high res youtube playback on 3g connection. I know that the youtube app will play higher resolution over wifi but on my old htc devices I was able to stream high definition over 3g.
I'm also intersted in this.
siralex241 said:
I wanted to see if anyone has been able to have by default high res youtube playback on 3g connection. I know that the youtube app will play higher resolution over wifi but on my old htc devices I was able to stream high definition over 3g.
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any other word on this. Will there have to be ann app for it. It sux having to watch the awful quality.
this reminds me of the my old iPhone3g,,,, it sucks having to watch youtube in that kind of resolution,,, and with the phone not supporting flash yet... there is no other option
Bump again for this topic. I'm surprised it's not talked about more.
I just came from a Samsung Captivate and it has an option to run video in HD. It took a little longer to load the film, but was well worth it!
LS1Jabroni said:
Bump again for this topic. I'm surprised it's not talked about more.
I just came from a Samsung Captivate and it has an option to run video in HD. It took a little longer to load the film, but was well worth it!
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Yes, just people with HTC devices are able to watch HQ videos...
That sucks! I would have just gotten the HTC Surround if it didn't look so cheap and have such bad reviews.
We can only hope that either MS or a developer can come up with some software to fix this... as I wouldn't see this as being a hardware issue.
Buy a "RealTube" app, works fine on any handset.
i know there are all kinds of apps that do this but can someone tell me one where i can get audio and video and it be in sync and not super delayed?
i would like the highest res video i can get with still getting 30fps
i can use usb cord to my pc that dont bother me.
i will use whatever method that needs to be done.
everything i tried so far = fail
im running latest nightly CM7
my home wifi router dont do wireless-n (only b/g)
anyhow i would really love to use the droid-x as a real webcam with video and AUDIO that is in sync and somewhere close to 30fps and not a 5 second delay
thanks
I looked for something maybe 6 months ago to make the DX a decent webcam, but I gave up. I found that the apps with audio support lagged too much, while the apps that played back smoothly had no audio support. Best bet, buy a better webcam for you computer.
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we know the DX can record at 30fps at 720P in good lighting.
wonder why we cant get a good stream at 480P with audio in sync?
someone probably just hasnt figured out how to do it yet.