Is there a reason why you cannot select 1440p or 2160p image quality on the iPhone?
It’s such a shame to be stuck at 1080p.
It’s such a shame to be stuck at 1080p.
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iPhone XS Max Why Is YouTube Limited To 1080p Within iOS App?
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Google makes it that way. It's the same with Safari on Mac. They make you download Chrome.
Yes, it is a shame. But that is because Apple refuses to support VP8 codec that YouTube 2160P and 4K uses.
To be honest i don’t see a lot of use of watching 2160P video on an iPhone.
To be honest i don’t see a lot of use of watching 2160P video on an iPhone.
You can't see the difference anyway. Usually you can't see the difference between 1080p & 720p on a iPhone either, and when you can it's hardly any different.
You can definitely tell the difference. I used to have a Galaxy S9+ and the evidence between 1080 and 1440 was obvious, and that was on an even smaller screen than the iPhone XS Max.
I agree. I can tell the difference between 1080p and 1440p on android phones. I would love to be able to stream at 1440p on my iPad.
Like most things in life we don’t need, having the option just works on a psychological level. Apple/Google, whoever’s Responsible are messing with the consumer
Also the ability to LEAVE videos @ 1080p. This is annoying to have to do over and over.
For the asking price of the iPads, we deserve it.
What if we want it? We can live without so many things but what kind of life would that be?
Because Google is forcing its VP8 codec for higher res video.
It's because iOS devices have no hardware support for vp8 codec and are too slow to use software decoder at high resolutions.
Can you back this up with any citations? I’m pretty sure my intel desktop chip doesn’t have any hardware support specifically for the vp8 codec either.
Your desktop is using software decoding (using the general purpose cpu).
When google tried to use software decoding for high resolutions, the YouTube app was laggy, using a lot of battery and people were complaining.
When was that? And the qualcomm chipset has hardware support for the vp8 codec? What happens when the vp9 codec comes out? Those videos won't play on android?
Are these built into qualcomm chipsets? Not every android uses qualcomm. Anyway this is becoming less clear with many generalities. I was asking for specifics.
I can easily tell the difference between 720, 1080 and 1440.
2160 would be useful if Apple move to 4K on iPad or iPhone (SONY Xperia 1 has 4K HDR).
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Too slow?
So my iPhone XS Max is too slow to do YouTube 1440p?
Quite the contrary. Google is using VP8 which is a open source royalty free codec. Apple refuses to support it (for no good reason). YouTube has to compress and host all this video - it makes sense they won't support multiple codecs.
Hey, YouTube is giving us UHD content and should be congratulated for it. Especially if it’s our created content that is available like they’re a UHD public access channel.