Youtube slashes quality over airplay! (lemmy.giftedmc.com)

submitted 3 months ago by haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.giftedmc.com/post/669265

Today I encountered something new and dystopian:

You can airplay from your iphone to an appletv but now youtube drops and locks the quality at 360p, making the content unwatchable on larger screens.

Once you disable airplay, the quality jumps back to 1080p. If you choose 1080p before and enable airiplay after, it still changes.

This hasnt been an issue for years. this new anti consumer move prompted me to order another raspberry pi to put kodi on.

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[-] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 months ago

I think this is just a bug because I have this issue with Safari where the only video options are 1080p or 360p, and for whtaever reason airplaying youtube videos has always been limited to 720p

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 3 months ago

Is it an Apple thing or a Google thing?

[-] black0ut@pawb.social 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I dunno. But if AirPlay works by sending your screen over wifi, it might be a bandwidth issue. Streaming video from youtube to your phone and then from your phone to a TV can be quite intensive, especially with modern phones being 1080p or more, which takes more bandwidth to stream to a TV. I've had this problem on a slow wifi on Android, and there's not much you can do to fix it besides upgrading your router.

However, it doesn't mean that's exactly what is happening here. Certainly someone could be throttling video quality on purpose and we wouldn't really have a way to prove it. With how shady and monopolistic big tech companies are, I wouldn't put it past any of them (google and apple)