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YouTube HDR content is finally available!
You will find a playlist here. However, these clips will be played as SDR on Sonys for now.
With youtube-dl you can find vp9.2 encodings for those clips:
330 webm 256x144 144p60 156k , vp9.2, 60fps, video only, 2.38MiB 331 webm 426x240 240p60 256k , vp9.2, 60fps, video only, 3.87MiB 332 webm 640x360 360p60 485k , vp9.2, 60fps, video only, 7.35MiB 333 webm 854x480 480p60 909k , vp9.2, 60fps, video only, 13.83MiB 334 webm 1280x720 720p60 1991k , vp9.2, 60fps, video only, 28.18MiB 335 webm 1920x1080 1080p60 3201k , vp9.2, 60fps, video only, 49.70MiB 336 webm 2560x1440 1440p60 11166k , vp9.2, 60fps, video only, 170.23MiB 337 webm 3840x2160 2160p60 20122k , vp9.2, 60fps, video only, 335.45MiB
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:
@benfryer Actualy this update doesn't play video in HDR on Bravia TV. And it rarely goes to 2160 either. Many videos that used to play at 2160p now play at 1440p max. The only good news is that many 2160p videos that played at 1080p max in the previous version now play at 1440p as well.
Still, I prefer the new interface and also in terms of performances it is acceptable (I had plenty of 1080p60fps videos stuttering in the previous version. Well, maybe it depended on the day). My biggest complaint is the lack of the channel selection at login. But after subscribing to a couple of channels now at least I get the suggestions more in line with what I like, so I can deal with it. Just after updating they were all Italian junk (idiotic youtubers, football, nail polishing and crap like that). Quite irritating.
2.0.0.19 is available. Said to fix some performance issues. Will test later.
Still no brand accounts or HDR playback though...
Oh well. At least in the app description now they promised to add the "brand accounts" (channel selection) in a future update.
Oh, still no 2160p either. I just tested few videos that were playing at 4K in v1.3.11.
Are you serious?
This update is useless and nothing has changed, if not, gotten worse. I installed it in one of my tvs and after getting out of it, ir crashed!
Very nice update!
No 4k, no brand accounts, same UI, same everything. Just under the hood changed to the poor, old code of the web version to try to make it run smoother on the browser framework.
Another absolute fail. AGAIN.
I'd love to know where any of us said that this new update 2.00.19 improved anything or that it is a nice update.. @Kuschelmonschter reported what's in the Google Play description and said that he will test it, while I confirmed that 2160p still is not working, and that Google promised the brand account will be added in a future update.
Still v2.0 never crashed on me. They say that keeping crying brings bad karma. That must be it, I suppose..
What a drama queen...
If by Drama Queen is to request the best, then yes!
One thing I am not, is a Beta tester!
The software released is not even close to be considered a Beta!
They simply ported this THING to android tv and launched in the wild
as it was.
Nothing has changed and they do not wanna go back to the native app!
They just don't want to acknoledge defeat!
They will bring brand account access in the next weeks buit it will still be
a horrid user experience, nonetheless!
Videos start at the lowest kbps, looking horrible on a 65'' screen.
User interface is absolute trash.
And the worst. The crashes. A recurrent problem with android tv apps
that use wrappers. Just like the Facebook app!
The only thing that worked well was the freaking native app and now is a mess.
Navigation is still laggy on my ATV1, even though keyboard navigtion in search has become more responsive in 2.0.0.19. The native Android TV keyboard in YouTube 1.X is still way superior though as it has better support for input from mobile devices and also localization.
Also when quickly flicking through videos by holding down right or left button, the new YouTube 2.0 is way slower and more laggy compared to the old native app.
2.0.0.19 brought down CPU usage a bit for me, both in idle/background or while playing video. High frame rate video is less jerky compared to 2.0.0.18 where apparently lots of frames got dropped. The World in HDR still has a constant judder to it (looks like rendering is not in sync with the display's VSync) though whereas with YouTube 1.3 it is buttery smooth (in both cases played at the maximum of 1440p60 with the same amount of Motionflow applied).
So my biggest concerns after testing 2.0.0.19 are:
- high frame rate 4K video plays at 1440p60 max. (e.g. The World in HDR)
- high frame rate video has a constant judder to it (e.g. The World in HDR)
- still high CPU load while playing video
- navigation more laggy (guess we have to live with that in a non-native app)
You should just have said:
It's a piece of sh&%!
No, because just trolling around does not help anybody. You will have to live with the new direction Google is taking here, so make the best out of it. Deal with the fact that Android TV is cheap and insignificant sh, especially on the weak Sony/MediaTek Smart TVs...