YTPlayer got a lot of problems after OS update to 2.1.1.26
asked 2017-09-01 21:38:46 +0300
I recently updated to Jämsänjoki, and YTPlayer suddenly started behaving much worse than before the update.
- Before the update, if the connection was slow and unreliable, the video would freeze and show a spinner with "Buffering: XX%..." text in it, and then continue playing until the buffer was drained again. After the update, in this situation, the playback sometimes just stops abruptly and the GUI returns to the video description page. This happens about 3 times out of 5.
- Before the update, if the connection was stable and broadband, the videos played flawlessly. After the update, even with perfect connection, even in low resolution mode (360p), the videos often freeze and "choke" with no reason whatsoever, along with audible pops and skips of the sound channel. Often these chokes result in aforementioned crash of the whole playback.
Also note that
- I am absolutely positive that this is caused by the SailfishOS update, because I have not changed anything else on my phone. I suspect this is connected to a regression in some updated system library.
- The inner flash is just about half full and BTRFS is balanced to death.
- YTPlayer is the only running program, so it's not a RAM issue.
I figure I won't get any help from the YTPlayer author because he apparently abandoned the app.
Maybe someone here can share another solution to watching YouTube videos (preferably supporting pre-downloading and offline watching).
since ytplayer stopped to show recommendations last year, i switched to leszeks Video player which has a integrated webview for youtube. It does the job but i concour, a new maintainer for yt-player would be awesome.
mosen ( 2017-09-01 22:20:21 +0300 )editWhat version of ytplayer do you use?
mentaljam ( 2017-09-19 09:03:33 +0300 )edit