Post #898396

2026-03-29 00:55 UTC

While we&#39;re complaining about tvOS video players can we touch on the YouTube app tanking half the videos to 240p as soon you change playback speed to 1.5x

Replies (10)

@timo@social.hetzel.net 2026-03-29 00:56

@christianselig@mastodon.social and destroying audio going to airplay speakers while doing it.

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@ferrousguy@sandboxed.social 2026-03-29 01:21

@christianselig@mastodon.social Or that the YouTube app Google finally spit out for visionOS is an inscrutable mess of UX that doesn’t really lean into any of the stuff that makes spatial computing interesting? If only there was a better way!

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@drvolks@mastodon.social 2026-03-29 01:40

@christianselig@mastodon.social if only one had experience with this he could release a great app 😉😉

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@praetorianpi@sunny.garden 2026-03-29 01:47

@christianselig@mastodon.social HBO Max 🤮🤮🤮

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@alacriiity@infosec.exchange 2026-03-29 03:10

@christianselig@mastodon.social tvOS has been slow and buggy. I’ve already mentally commited to grapheneOS with my next phone. I need to look into alternative media boxes as well.

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@foobarsoft@mastodon.social 2026-03-29 03:43

@christianselig@mastodon.social How about how the play button doesn’t play the video? Gets me constantly.

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@packeteer@hachyderm.io 2026-03-29 05:38

@christianselig@mastodon.social I refuse to use the app. Safari only

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@heals@indiepocalypse.social 2026-03-29 09:59

@christianselig@mastodon.social not actually related to tvOS - it’s a longstanding bug with YouTube native apps for anything from AndroidTV, WebOS to XBox and PS5 if the video you’re watching is available in 60fps. If you have a 30fps video it’ll do 1.5x just fine.

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@covercash@mastodon.social 2026-03-29 11:45

@christianselig@mastodon.social audio sync issues if you have HomePods and adjust the playback speed too. The app is steaming hot garbage.

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@StudioCohort@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-03-29 12:21

@christianselig@mastodon.social I had that same issue on my xbox, super annoying. I ended up switching to a pc in my living room (not because of that), and even with the jank of using a mouse with controller its so much better. Plus I'm pretty sure you get more ads on the tvOS version too

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