Youtube craps out in 1440p - Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers

Has anyone else noticed this? While watching a 1440p video on youtube, after a minute or two, it will start dropping frames like crazy. Sometimes the video will stop entirely (audio still plays). I've noticed this on MKBHD and Linus Tech Tips channels. If I set the quality to 1080p (or anything lower) manually, it plays just fine. It's not a buffering issue, because the audio still plays. It seems like the phone is trying to reduce the cpu and youtube isn't capable of playing 1440p video with the reduced cpu. It never happens at the beginning of a video. I didn't have this problem on my V10, ever.

Can you give links to exact videos? I just tested on this on
https://youtu.be/hddwAIXbKZo
Looked amazing. Ran in 1440 with zero issues.

This was happening to me as well. SD820 variant. On WiFi. A restart seems to have fixed the problem...for now...hopefully.

Exynos will breeze through this. SD fail.
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Okay I can see what you're talking about now. I just watch this video. Its default was like 720. I changed it to 1440 and it froze. Sound continues video stops. I minimize the video and closed it then reopened it it stayed 1440 and ran fine.
https://youtu.be/RCgPD2sfbAQ
Not sure what's causing it but I can definitely see the problem. I don't want to have to close and reopen a video to get it to play properly.

These are two of the ones I remember it happening on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oKIo0V0omg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCgPD2sfbAQ

zathus said:
Can you give links to exact videos? I just tested on this on
https://youtu.be/hddwAIXbKZo
Looked amazing. Ran in 1440 with zero issues.
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That video may not be long enough... it happens after a minute or two on my phone, and that video is only 1:45 long.

This 1440p issue happens on my LG G4 as well. I'm getting my Exynos S7 Edge on Friday

dodgeboy said:
These are two of the ones I remember it happening on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oKIo0V0omg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCgPD2sfbAQ
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Just watched both of those on 1440p, no glitches at all. YouTube 1440 vids have been smooth as butter since my restart.
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Brava27 said:
Exynos will breeze through this. SD fail.
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Maybe not.

dodgeboy said:
Has anyone else noticed this? While watching a 1440p video on youtube, after a minute or two, it will start dropping frames like crazy. Sometimes the video will stop entirely (audio still plays). I've noticed this on MKBHD and Linus Tech Tips channels. If I set the quality to 1080p (or anything lower) manually, it plays just fine. It's not a buffering issue, because the audio still plays. It seems like the phone is trying to reduce the cpu and youtube isn't capable of playing 1440p video with the reduced cpu. It never happens at the beginning of a video. I didn't have this problem on my V10, ever.
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Happens on my V10... there are multiple threads in the V10 forums about the issue.

Are you guy's by any chance using T-Mobile? I know with their Binge On feature, they try to reduce and limit overall quality of any video feed not set up with the Binge On program. YouTube is not set up with it.

I get extremely choppy and dropped frames on 1440p. Also no 60fps option at all something is definitely wrong. My s6 edge was able to play 1440p 60fps with no issues at all.

jrwingate6 said:
Are you guy's by any chance using T-Mobile? I know with their Binge On feature, they try to reduce and limit overall quality of any video feed not set up with the Binge On program. YouTube is not set up with it.
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I'm on T-Mobile, but in my case, it is not related to BingeOn. I have BingeOn disabled, and this was on WiFi. As I said in the original post, it isn't a buffering issue because the audio keeps going. Also, as others have noticed, if you minimize it and come back, the video will go for a little bit and then stop again.

https://youtu.be/iNJdPyoqt8U
Tested this ^^ and worked fine for me..I don't have any 60fps option though but it seems it plays the 60fps on the highest setting any way, just don't mention it .

Anyone try uninstalling YouTube updates and going back to the version that shipped with the phone? Since it's happening with other phones it could just be an app bug introduced with the latest update.

All videos play perfectly on my Exynos gs7 edge at 1440p
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Definitely a Youtube issue as it's happening on too many different devices. I noticed it on my wife s6 edge + but not yet on my s7 edge.

All 1440p fine on exynos

useless reply, but I followed the link for the "2K" video sample (couple minutes long) and that played without issue via the YouTube app.
After that there was a link for a 4K Video Beauty of Nature video (about 31 minutes long) and THAT locked up after a few minutes of playback. (addendum: I'm a sucker for good Nature, but holy crap is that a pretty video.)
AT&T GS7E, all current updates, playing over mobile data. SpeedTest.net reports > 50Mb/s downstream at my location so bandwidth is probably not a factor.
Firefox plays the video without issue it seems, 13 minutes in without issue. Of course I can't be sure it's playing a 1440p stream, but it looks the same to my old eyes. :^(

I've played all Youtube videos linked and have no issues. Tried many thers via the Youtube app a7 1080p and 1440p and found no issues on my Exynos S7E

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youtube 60fps

Hi guys - Is anyone getting choppy (dropped frames) youtube videos for 1080p and 1440p rez and also no availability of 1080p60 option?
Just tested... And yup...seeing some random issue.
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are you seeing no availability of 60fps?
Yes I have this issue as well with my gs7 edge
alexh516 said:
Hi guys - Is anyone getting choppy (dropped frames) youtube videos for 1080p and 1440p rez and also no availability of 1080p60 option?
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Having the same exact issue on my tmobile s7 edge. Choppy dropped frames on 1440p and no 60fps option on any video. My s6 edge had no issues at all. Very frustrating.
Also another big I noticed is that Bluetooth audio is never in sync with video.
Uh oh
any with exynos soc that have this issue? SD820 guys, you have this problems?
Turn off Smart Stay in Display settings. That seemed to fix it for me.
johanbiff said:
any with exynos soc that have this issue? SD820 guys, you have this problems?
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No such issue on my Exynos handset.
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gtg465x said:
Turn off Smart Stay in Display settings. That seemed to fix it for me.
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Smart stay has always been disabled for me and I'm still getting lag and no 60 fps options
I took a video on 1080p 60 frames and noticed a little stutters here and there moving the camera around while shooting. I went and uploaded the video to YouTube so I can see the results on the YouTube player and it was horrible. Majot stutter and jumping around. Played it again, and the next time was not so bad. Sounds like YouTube is having some issues on their side.
Tried again on 4K mode also.
Anyone else experience some micro stutters when capturing videos on their new S7 Edge? This is without a memory card and directly saving photos/videos on the device internal memory.
YouTube has been wonky in general as of late... 1440p and 1080p/60 was unreliable on my LG V10 as well...
Deltatristar500 said:
I took a video on 1080p 60 frames and noticed a little stutters here and there moving the camera around while shooting. I went and uploaded the video to YouTube so I can see the results on the YouTube player and it was horrible. Majot stutter and jumping around. Played it again, and the next time was not so bad. Sounds like YouTube is having some issues on their side.
Tried again on 4K mode also.
Anyone else experience some micro stutters when capturing videos on their new S7 Edge? This is without a memory card and directly saving photos/videos on the device internal memory.
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Think it is mandatory to put some kind of videos into a wide and fast SD card if you don't want to experience stuttering
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zizon65 said:
Think it is mandatory to put some kind of videos into a wide and fast SD card if you don't want to experience stuttering
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Yeah, I have a class 10 card on its way this week
It's a known bug from the SD820 version (or all the ones using the SD820 chipset currently). Possibly tied to Qualcomm's own codecs.
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Deltatristar500 said:
Yeah, I have a class 10 card on its way this week
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No issues here. Im on exynos
I have no problems with 2K or with 60FPS video.
Movies at 60FPS just look wierd to me.
I have pretty significant compression artifacts in blue colours (i.e. sky, ocean) at 60FPS 1080p. 4K felt stuttery.
It seems like others are suffering from it too.
I always film in 60fps, as it gives you a lot more to play with in editing suite
*I've got the Sony sensor*

Youtube Videos seem to LAG badly

It seems the S7 Edge can't handle playing YouTube videos in HD. Anything 1080p and higher it lags and stalls playing the video but you hear the sound. Does anyone else have this issue or tried it? My Note 5 works like a champ. And this is a fresh install.
Okay, so I uninstalled the youtube updates and using the one that came on the phone and it works fine. Any ideas why that would work?
It seems to be a bug affecting various Qualcomm chips, as people with the Moto X Pure and LG V10 are having the same issue, so it might just be a bug in the YouTube app or maybe a Qualcomm driver or something. We should probably report it on Google product forums if no one else has already. I turned off Smart Stay and initially I thought that fixed it for me, but then the issue started happening again so I guess it was just coincidence.
OK I just tried you tube and is updated and all 1080 streams played fine with no lag or stalling.
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markwebb said:
OK I just tried you tube and is updated and all 1080 streams played fine with no lag or stalling.
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As soon as the phone updates that app, it breaks it again. Ugh. I find it hard to believe it works for some.....As many are noticing it.
nizmoz15 said:
As soon as the phone updates that app, it breaks it again. Ugh. I find it hard to believe it works for some.....As many are noticing it.
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1080p works fine for me. It's 1440p that causes the pausing on mine, although occasionally it will play a 1440p video just fine.
gtg465x said:
1080p works fine for me. It's 1440p that causes the pausing on mine, although occasionally it will play a 1440p video just fine.
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I agree. 1080p seems to work most of the time. I had it do it twice on that....but 1440p definitely won't work.
Same problem here. I'll try uninstalling updates. Thanks
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Hi, just tried, works fine for me. Im using exynos s7 edge.
jadaress1 said:
Hi, just tried, works fine for me. Im using exynos s7 edge.
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Yeah, the bug seems to only affect Snapdragon chips. I did witness a Note 5 with Exynos reboot when trying to play a YouTube video yesterday though.
tmobild s7 edge here and definitely have the same issue 1440p youtube videos are choppy as heck and also are you guys noticing that there isnt a 60fps option as well?
what the heck with my s6 edge i could watch 1440p 60fps youtube vids with no issue at all!
Is there a Youtube app alternative thats good? Similar to how Twitter has Phoenix
Tradio said:
tmobild s7 edge here and definitely have the same issue 1440p youtube videos are choppy as heck and also are you guys noticing that there isnt a 60fps option as well?
what the heck with my s6 edge i could watch 1440p 60fps youtube vids with no issue at all!
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It's definitely a bug. The Snapdragon 820 is easily powerful enough to play 1440p videos smoothly. Hopefully it gets fixed sooner rather than later.
Those of you with unlimited data on Tmobile need to call CS and cancel the Binge On setting. If you keep this enabled on your account then the video quality is reduced big time.
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I made a video of my lag.
I kind of found a work around tho for mine.
Right when I open the app and choose a 1440p video I have to go in to the little gear option thingy and change it to 1440p. From here the video gets choppy and lags but if i go to another video and YouTube saves my 1440p selection and it automatically starts the video at 1440p where I don't have to go in and change it the video has no lag.
Someone let me know if it is the same for you.
YT was updated yesterday now with full 60FPS..no problems ever with my S7 edge

2k youtube video freeze

hellow
galaxy s7 edge t-mobile
anyone experiencing freeze when play a video on youtube in 2k. for example a video from MKBHD or someone else.
because i can only see videos in 1080.
anyone?
I've watched a few movie trailers in 2k and they played fine. I don't know who could watch an entire movie like that. Looks wierd to me. I always disable that auto motion plus crap on 240hz TV's. I'd rather everything I watch not look like a soap opera. =)
If you're on mobile data and you haven't called T-Mobile to cancel Bing On then they won't let you watch Youtube videos in 2k let alone 1080. They reduce the quality of Youtube videos to use less data. Of course if you're on wifi this doesn't make a difference.
If you have unlimited LTE, you can turn off Binge On.
http://www.droid-life.com/2016/01/07/how-to-turn-off-t-mobile-binge-on/
But I don't think that's OP issue here di you have the youtube link we can try?
Vanquiz said:
If you have unlimited LTE, you can turn off Binge On.
http://www.droid-life.com/2016/01/07/how-to-turn-off-t-mobile-binge-on/
But I don't think that's OP issue here di you have the youtube link we can try?
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I've heard even if you have unlimited data, they will still throttle you if you go over something like 20 gig/month.
Is that still the case?
jiovaxrs said:
hellow
galaxy s7 edge t-mobile
anyone experiencing freeze when play a video on youtube in 2k. for example a video from MKBHD or someone else.
because i can only see videos in 1080.
anyone?
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It was pausing for me on his new video also, so I searched other 2k videos and all the others played fine. I think it is just his video.
Yes. 2k videos freeze on me occasionally. I really am curious what could be causing it. I also had my entire phone freeze once when playing a video in the Break app. It totally froze and the speaker was emitting a crazy high frequency sound. I just held the power button until it rebooted
I can't say for sure, heard that they reserved the right to throttle any crazy suspicious usage, but so far I haven't got one.
I use 25GB just this couple weeks, it's just because I'm taking a break from work, and watch too much K Drama, lol. But usually every month, I used 15-25GB.
jrwingate6 said:
I've watched a few movie trailers in 2k and they played fine. I don't know who could watch an entire movie like that. Looks wierd to me. I always disable that auto motion plus crap on 240hz TV's. I'd rather everything I watch not look like a soap opera. =)
If you're on mobile data and you haven't called T-Mobile to cancel Bing On then they won't let you watch Youtube videos in 2k let alone 1080. They reduce the quality of Youtube videos to use less data. Of course if you're on wifi this doesn't make a difference.
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you now what? when i play youtube using wifi play normal the 1440 video.
realy interesting. thanks for bring me some light
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I've heard even if you have unlimited data, they will still throttle you if you go over something like 20 gig/month.
Is that still the case?
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i got the unlimited 4glte and going to verify this now. in wifi play ok. this is (un poco extraño)
jiovaxrs said:
hellow
galaxy s7 edge t-mobile
anyone experiencing freeze when play a video on youtube in 2k. for example a video from MKBHD or someone else.
because i can only see videos in 1080.
anyone?
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I had this issue but it appears that the recent update I applied today has fixed it.
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you now what? when i play youtube using wifi play normal the 1440 video.
realy interesting. thanks for bring me some light
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No problem....Yea, depending on my signal, I used to have 1080 YouTube videos freeze on me before I canceled Bing on.
The latest update seems to have fixed this
I think it has something to do with the updated modem, prior to update I was getting 7 -12 MB download at home, now back to normal 25-30mb.
And when i tried to play gta san andreas in full resolution break the game. Anyone?
I think the issue here might have something to do with ram management. It happened to me 3 times already. And even after the resent update it did it again! Hopefully there's a fix for this soon.
Edit: OK try this.
1. Open youtube app
2.settings
3 . Backround and offline
4.under save offline tab. Disable the sd card.
Hopefully this helps. :thumbup:

			
				
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hi
i dont see that option in my setting.
youtube/setting
i see
*get youtube red
*general
*connect TVs
*privacy
*notification
*caption
*about
JDMDC2 said:
I think the issue here might have something to do with ram management. It happened to me 3 times already. And even after the resent update it did it again! Hopefully there's a fix for this soon.
Edit: OK try this.
1. Open youtube app
2.settings
3 . Backround and offline
4.under save offline tab. Disable the sd card.
Hopefully this helps. :thumbup:
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So far this worked for me.
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Wait, what... How come some of us don't have this option, lol
I don't see the option either.

Youtube issue

I can't play video on HD on my axon 7 using the youtube app only max 480p. Anyone whit the same problem?
Edit: after some test i've discovered that using youtube app i can't watch video on 720p60 neither 1080p60 but only "standard" HD video. Is that normal?
Nope I don't have that issue
I noticed that too. It was there before. Now it's gone.
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I found out the problem. The latest YouTube update screwed up the video quality options. HTC M10 users are having the same problem.
Not got that issue, got the sound sync issue though.
This is a YouTube issue. I looked up other devices that had this issue and it turns out that the Samsung Galaxy S7 had the problem just after launch. It took two months to fix it.
Looks like the video quality issue is a YouTube problem. I used Dailymotion and I can change between 720p60fps and 1080p60fps.
I have this issue. It's really annoying. The image freezes and the audio carries on. Only happens with hd content.
Is this still affecting anyone else?
I have had my ZTE Axon 7 for 10 days and experiencing the same problem. The visuals on YouTube videos are stuttering or freezing completely when playing 4K videos at 1440p at 30fps or 60fps. I have also experienced it on 1080p 60fps. This causes the audio to fall out of sync. I have compared it to my Samsung Note 4 and S7 Edge and have no problem playing same video. I have even factory reset phone to no avail. Emailed Gearbest (supplier) and ZTE (No help) and offered me an exchange or refund but have no stock. Really like the phone so don't want a refund on something for an problem I believe can be fixed as seems like a software issue. Great Value phone!
Cricius said:
I can't play video on HD on my axon 7 using the youtube app only max 480p. Anyone whit the same problem?
Edit: after some test i've discovered that using youtube app i can't watch video on 720p60 neither 1080p60 but only "standard" HD video. Is that normal?
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A7 Video applications performance:
Decode 60fps 1080p HEVC/H.264/VP8/VC1/MP4
Encode 30fps 1080p H.264/VP8/MP4 30fps 480p H.263
WFD (Miracast) 1080p30 decode + 1080p30 encode
what's the vedeo format you play with? thanks~
Switchyfeet said:
I have had my ZTE Axon 7 for 10 days and experiencing the same problem. The visuals on YouTube videos are stuttering or freezing completely when playing 4K videos at 1440p at 30fps or 60fps. I have also experienced it on 1080p 60fps. This causes the audio to fall out of sync. I have compared it to my Samsung Note 4 and S7 Edge and have no problem playing same video. I have even factory reset phone to no avail. Emailed Gearbest (supplier) and ZTE (No help) and offered me an exchange or refund but have no stock. Really like the phone so don't want a refund on something for an problem I believe can be fixed as seems like a software issue. Great Value phone!
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Getting this problem too, only happens when i watch 1440p videos. 1080p videos run fine without stutters

Samsung S4 Youtube 1080p60

I'm using a GT-I9505 with wizcyan 3.2 rom. I was wondering as the tilte says if this phone can handle 1080 p 60 videos.
If so what is the problem of not being able to play it (it freezes but audio is working fine).
If there are tw, cm or aosp roms that can play it, how did they do that because I'm very curious about it.
Still no answer? Hmmm...
Anyway I looked at qualcomm's site, they claim qualcomm 600 can play up to 1080 hd...
I'm thinking it can't support 1080p60, but I heard someone can see 1080p60, which make me doubt about qualcomm's statement.
I hope someone can answer me.
It doesn't. Do a Google search and you'll see couple of threads where people have the same problem as you. Or maybe that's just something related to the YouTube app. Maybe it can play [email protected] fps videos that are on the phone's storage.
Anyway, YouTube should work with [email protected] fps.
And the difference in quality isn't really that big. This difference is further minimized by the fact that you're watching it on a mobile phone screen and even 360p would look acceptable.
I constantly download videos in 360p (to save space and time) and they look surprisingly good.
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It doesn't. Do a Google search and you'll see couple of threads where people have the same problem as you. Or maybe that's just something related to the YouTube app. Maybe it can play [email protected] fps videos that are on the phone's storage.
Anyway, YouTube should work with [email protected] fps.
And the difference in quality isn't really that big. This difference is further minimized by the fact that you're watching it on a mobile phone screen and even 360p would look acceptable.
I constantly download videos in 360p (to save space and time) and they look surprisingly good.
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You're wrong, it's because of the ROM - if You're on CM, the phone can handle 1080p60 with ease. If you want to, it can even handle 1440p but yeah, why would you with a 1080p panel. tl:dr Depends on ROM

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