Those are webm however which the native Video app won't play.
We will see whether we will get support for it soon, even for the early 2016 models with the old MediaTek SoC from last year. At least Sony promised that back at CES:
YouTube will also start streaming in HDR quality later this year, using a new VP9-Profile 2 codec that brings HDR support to Google’s VP9 video format. Sony’s Motoi Kawamura, Head of TV Product Planning for Sony Europe, confirmed to FlatpanelsHD that the 2016 models will support VP9-Profile 2 and be capable of streaming YouTube in HDR. We saw a demo at CES and it looked very good.
I am ok with them not getting updates that fit their designs because ...
Dude, we paid for a Google experience. An Android environment.
Why should I get the same treatment as the people who buy Samsung? Scr#$ them! Get the stock YouTube design into their environments... They are not on Android.
We deserve it. Better care. Not this bull they are trying to toss on us.
That's why. Because we carry their freaking flag! We put up with their bugs. It's the minimal thing they should have done.
I could get used to the new interface I guess, although I don't like how we can't pick the resolution anymore and I've lost the ability to switch between my 2 YouTube accounts on the same email, unless anyone knows how to do that now?
It used to just let me pick which account I wanted when I sign in but now won't give me a choice and only signs into one of them.
I could get used to the new interface I guess, although I don't like how we can't pick the resolution anymore and I've lost the ability to switch between my 2 YouTube accounts on the same email
Those issues are not strictly related to the interface, though. Also because if you sign in youtube.com/tv, which has the same identical interface, there is the option to choose channel. The one about the resolution instead is an old YouTube issue. In the previous version we could choose the resolution, but in some videos it was 1080p60 max. Now the same videos (always) play at 1440p60. We tested it already in some previous posts in this thread.
The problem is that most of the video that were playing at 2160p now reach 1440p only. The ones playing at 2160p now are just a bunch.
In any case personally I do prefer waaaay more the new interface. I couldn't stand that stupid red block when going into the video options. And IMO this new interface is also much faster. Netflix fast to be clear. I wish Amazon Video could browse the movies like that, instead of buffering at each section.
I keep reading that it is a shortcut. Shortcut to what? To the YouTube TV web page using Opera? Which doesn't work fine either (I mean, it's worse than the app. I tested it, 1080p max. But it allows to choose the channels)? Some people (I believe with the Nvidia Shield) talk about "Cobalt" instead, which honestly I never heard before.
I mean, it might be. But when I check the CPU usage I get this:
Mem: 1489540K used, 124172K free, 81164K shrd, 21972K buff, 261668K cached
CPU: 40.6% usr 27.9% sys 2.6% nic 27.9% idle 0.6% io 0.0% irq 0.1% sirq
Load average: 44.38 41.10 38.13 10/2662 10701
PID PPID USER STAT VSZ %VSZ CPU %CPU COMMAND
8510 1271 u0_a140 S 1329m 84.1 0 39.8 {roid.youtube.tv} com.google.android.youtube.tv
20648 1 media S 163m 10.3 1 4.9 /system/bin/mediaserver
1262 1 system R < 149m 9.4 0 3.6 /system/bin/surfaceflinger
Which means the CPU is used to run the code in the YouTube apk. Then if that app is a web view, it's ok. But a web view isn't exactly the same of a web link.
When playing a YouTube video, press the [HOME] button on the remote control. The YouTube video is playing in the background with the homescreen menu overlay on the top
I thought you meant holding the Home button, to go into the app history. So I tested it. And it plays the video even there!
I don't believe that a "link" (whatever they mean with it) has the ability to do that...
Anyhow, I have read some people saying to use this app instead: Smart YouTube TV. So I tested it. Same identical interface (the one from the web), but with the ability to choose the channel (like in the web). Too bad that it plays at 1080p top, and going into settings the images move, as if it's bigger than the screen (like if there are scrollbars). Obviously no HDR either.
