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Re:Play audio only on YouTube and save bandwidth by mhh__ on Friday February 04, 2022 @07:42AM (#30206067)
On my phone at least there is an audible gap if you close the phone with the app playing, which doesn't happen with anything else. My guess is that it's fiddling with something in the background to only fetch audio instead of video.
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Re:Play audio only on YouTube and save bandwidth by SuperCuber on Friday February 04, 2022 @09:08AM (#30206906)
I always assumed this was because they are switching from builtin app code to their override for the feature... I tried opening a video and locking immediately and it seems like it saturates the download speed until the video is buffered X seconds to the future. Another piece of evidence against it is that when unlocking, it immmediately shows the video: it would need to buffer if only the audio was loaded
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Re:Play audio only on YouTube and save bandwidth by ryankrage77 on Friday February 04, 2022 @03:48PM (#30212966)
> when unlocking, it immmediately shows the video

On my phone, on mobile data at least, it takes ~5 seconds to display the video again.

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Re:Play audio only on YouTube and save bandwidth by unixhero on Saturday February 05, 2022 @01:25AM (#30218345)
It is immediate on all phones I have tried it on. 5 seconds is unbearable.
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Re:Play audio only on YouTube and save bandwidth by thunderarea on Friday February 04, 2022 @04:05PM (#30213196)
5 seconds is a lot of time. This shows that it has to load the video
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Re:Play audio only on YouTube and save bandwidth by thunderarea on Friday February 04, 2022 @09:20AM (#30207025)
You have a point on this
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Re:Play audio only on YouTube and save bandwidth by thunderarea on Friday February 04, 2022 @08:13AM (#30206363)
sure
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