YouTube is having a lot of totally not anticompetitive “bugs” in these past couple of weeks
Seems like my Samsung TV app is being hit by stuff too, I had 5 unskippable ads and can’t seem to get stable 1080p at 60fps any more despite gigabit fibre and cat6. Meanwhile getting 4k on my YouTube app on Android on WiFi.
Go figure.
YouTube is so desperate to fight this war that they’re harming legitimate watchers meanwhile my rockpi running Android TV seems to keep running sTube just fine.
The nic on TVs tend to be awful. I can barely break 100mbps on my lg wired or wireless.
100mbps should be enough for a few 4K streams, and I imagine you’re not streaming more than one thing to your TV at any given time.
4k yes, 4k hdr is where it becomes limiting…from what I’ve read.
Perhaps, and I’ll readily admit my ignorance on this.
That said, I doubt the HDR overhead would be any larger than the equivalent baseline SDR content.
If my intuition is right, depending on other factors like compression you could still fit at least 2 streams on that bandwidth.
Repeat after me kids. It’s not an “oversight”, or “mistake”, or “bug”, or “misunderstanding”…
IF
IT
KEEPS
HAPPENING
Enshittification intensifies!
Does this include Apple Silicon Macs? That would be a bold move.
This issue was detected when running Firefox on Linux on Apple silicon. Firefox on Mac just identifies as x64.
It’s probably not on purpose by YouTube. It’s stupid they put restrictions on some heuristics to begin with but maybe because otherwise people would think YouTube is not loading properly while it’s the software decoding on the not capable arm PC that can’t handle the resolution.
What the heck…? My CPU is none of their business.
If you use any Google service, everything of yours is their business. You are their product, voluntarily.
No.
By using their services, you pretty much agree.
this prolly wasnt a bad decision early on… why push something to a population who cant utilize it… but shit changes fast, google.
