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