YouTube Resets Playback Speed Every Session
25 posts across 4 communities in the last 30 days; 84% from r/youtube.
“last year or so i finally decided to run ethernet under my house in the crawlspace for my pc as my WIFI sucked, i now have a max of 1Gbps both ways, but now YouTube loads weird, the audio and video constantly desync unless i have the video playing in full screen mode (which…”
“360 degree videos now play back in a distorted flat view. This issue started on my Chromecast 4K units months ago. I purchased the new Google TV streamer 4K hoping it would work as needed and it does not. I am curious is there anyone else in this community that uses a Chromecast…”
“I open a video and it's set to 0.5x speed, I change it, i play the next vid and it's still fine, I reload the page or re-launch firefox and it's back to 0.5x speed. I've disabled all of my extensions and it's still happening, but not in incognito for whatever reason. googling…”
Users are experiencing persistent issues with YouTube's playback settings, including unexpected video quality downgrades, playback speed defaults, and a lack of control over resolution. These problems occur across various devices and browsers, despite users' attempts to adjust settings, leading to frustration and a degraded viewing experience.
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“I don’t know if this is just a mobile device thing but im not sure what this is about the quality change only happens when later in the video a few seconds later submitted by /u/keepa50 [link] [comments]”
“My video quality keeps getting bumped down from 720p60 to 360, and YouTube won't allow me to change it back until I close the video, I am on mobile. Is there any way to fix this? submitted by /u/Able-Opportunity9364 [link] [comments]”
“last year or so i finally decided to run ethernet under my house in the crawlspace for my pc as my WIFI sucked, i now have a max of 1Gbps both ways, but now YouTube loads weird, the audio and video constantly desync unless i have the video playing in full screen mode (which isn't great for lower quality videos on my 4k screen) and its gotten so annoying as the video then stutters to try to resync the video and audio. I'm almost positive it isn't my connection as everything else not Y”
“360 degree videos now play back in a distorted flat view. This issue started on my Chromecast 4K units months ago. I purchased the new Google TV streamer 4K hoping it would work as needed and it does not. I am curious is there anyone else in this community that uses a Chromecast 4k or Google TV streamer 4k to watch native 360 videos as I do. Is it still working for you if so or are you annoyed with the same issue as I am with it being broken though for over 4 months. I didn't official Report”
“Any and all livestreams I try to watch are stuck at around 144p when set to auto, and still buffer. Trying to up the resolution just causes it to freeze altogether. Reloading the page doesnt help, closing the chat window doesnt help. VODs and regular videos are fine, its only lives. submitted by /u/Dracorex_22 [link] [comments]”
“I open a video and it's set to 0.5x speed, I change it, i play the next vid and it's still fine, I reload the page or re-launch firefox and it's back to 0.5x speed. I've disabled all of my extensions and it's still happening, but not in incognito for whatever reason. googling the issue wasn't useful either. I've tried clearing youtube site's cache, and that also isn't helping. I'm just going to re-install firefox and hope to god that does something.”
“I'm assuming this is a bug, but it's an insanely annoying bug, I can't get the quality to go up and it's been like this for days!!! I've restarted my phone, cleared the cache, but nothing has changed, I do not have YouTube Premium, so I don't know what is the issue or what I should do! Please help! submitted by /u/Lory3131 [link] [comments]”
“losing my mind over this randomly occurring, anyone have a fix? [re: on my desktop youtube videos starting with .75 speed? solution?]”
“Anyone else getting 480p as their max video quality in YouTube mobile? I've been getting this for 2 days and even contacted the help and support team but i got no reply.Tried deleting the app and restarting the phone too but the problem stays what can be done to solve this issue please help submitted by /u/tinynuts_ [link] [comments]”
“You mean you vibe-slopped a video with Opus 5.5? They all look the same and all have the same issue. They are too fast. See these examples why i come to this conclusion. [re: I made an advert for Obsidian]”
“Since around 9am YouTube has 480p AS max Resolution in the App, but in Incognito mode or in the browser all resolutions are available. Already tried deinstalling and reinstalling, restarting my Phone, etc. Moto G82 5G submitted by /u/Affectionate-Board84 [link] [comments]”
“For the past like 5 or 6 videos, my uploads default to play 360p resolution/quality when I watch them. The files are indeed 1080p and yes I can manually click the settings gear thing (in the bottom right) to force the playback to switch 1080p while I'm watching and it'll work. But if I don't manually click each and every time I watch one of my vids, it'll just stay in 360p til the end. I shouldn't have to do that manually every time. The quality setting says "Auto"”
“It’s a YouTube processing quirk, uploads at 1080p or higher get the fast, rubbish VP9 encode first, and the better quality version takes a while to replace the default. Uploading in 1440p, even if you just upscale a 1080p timeline, forces YouTube to use the vp09 codec from the start, so the default stream is cleaner. The audience being 40+ means they’re unlikely to fiddle with the quality cog, so forcing that better baseline is worth the extra render time.”
“I've also had this issue, no idea what's going on myself, I worry it could be destroying retention rate for my videos”
“Used to be able to cast YouTube from mobile app to pc on the same account and get full quality.”
“Has anyone had this issue? I have had my channel for years and it recently just started doing this. I have posted a few video and they default to 360p under the auto quality setting. The video is able to be switched to 1080p in the settings, but I don’t understand why it isn’t shown in that quality to begin with. Most people will probably just assume the video was uploaded in poor quality and will click off and I won't be able to grow my channel as much with the effort I put in. It’s also no”
“Has anyone had this problem? I'll be watching YouTube on my Xbox, and if I have it paused for too long, it starts playing the video in slow motion, but the speed settings haven't been changed. The only way I can get it to stop is by restarting my Xbox. It's happened to me at least 3 times now in the last few weeks. Just curious. submitted by /u/Nmg1988 [link] [comments]”
“So I was watching this video in 1080p while I was doing that the video black screened and stopped playing completely and the video quality switched to 360p with no way of changing it I then went out of YouTube and removed it from my recent apps after I relaunched the app and after I was watching the same video for 5 seconds it did it again Is there any way of fixing this? submitted by /u/These_Plate_3160 [link] [comments]”
“Why are my videos opening at the lowest playback speed to where I have to manually set it to normal speed ?? submitted by /u/Legendary_fartbender [link] [comments]”
“It randomly does this and it fixes it when I reload the app but its only a matter of time before it does it again. I tried changing the setting and everything is on high and I have decent internet connection so no clue why it does this. submitted by /u/ihatetopology69 [link] [comments]”
“I do not like permanent 2x speed as I rewind a lot. I dislike holding my screen for hours too. Is there somerhing like an auto clicker only for holding the screen? A consecutive one tip? Also, it is not only holding the video nowdays, you need to not swish and hold the place to not have the video dim itself. submitted by /u/WujuKingYi [link] [comments]”
“If the source file really is 1080p, the 360p version is usually just the first processed copy rather than a permanent downgrade. Give the processing more time and check the quality options on the watch page again later. For future uploads, exporting with the intended frame rate and bitrate, then watching it privately before publishing, can help catch an export issue without redoing the whole project.”
“hey so i’m trying to upload a video to youtube that was shot in 1080p. i waited for the hd processing to finish and uploaded it, but when i open the video it automatically goes to 360p, anyone know how to fix that? submitted by /u/222Bigs [link] [comments]”
“I've uploaded a video in 4:3 format, 720x560, and the player can't be in 60fps despite the original video being in 60fps. Why is that? submitted by /u/Seishura [link] [comments]”
I have the same problem. I took your suggestion to change accounts and I was able to select a higher resolution. I changed back to old account and now I can select…
“I have the same experience. Isolated to the app where I can only choose the same as the picture. Max option 480p. Can view the same video in a browser on the phone at maxed out quality. I've updated both the phone and youtube app. I've Cleared cache, reinstalled youtube, logged my user out and in, to no avail.”
“I've been using this tablet with no problems whatsoever for the past year or so & now all of a sudden every video I watch is limited to 480p being the highest quality to view(the other options being 144p, 240p, 360p). I checked my phone to see if it was happening on that end, too, but no I could still see stuff like 1080p & up. I've checked the tablet settings, went through YouTube's settings, & restarted my tablet but none of those worked. Tablet is a Samsung Galaxy Tab”
“Anybody has any idea how to solve this? I have youtube premium and i've already tried all the solutions i could find but nothing worked. The settings are right, i tried clearing the cache, restarting the phone, uninstalling the updates and still nothing. The weird thing is, if i change account or if i go incognito mode then everything works fine and i get all the quality options up to 4k60fps. submitted by /u/ryuuzzo [link] [comments]”
“Youtube keeps locking low quality and then play in even lower quality. Not an internet problem that is more than good for playing 4k videos Any fix? Annoying to watch dozen pixels move when 2-4k is available in non premium (which i have) submitted by /u/Worth-Maintenance749 [link] [comments]”
“I dont know where to ask this question. if there is a better subreddit please let me know. as the question says, the first second is in HD, but after that its blurry. if I go back to the first second or 2 of the video it is not in HD like it was when i first played the video, it stays blurry. it occurs when the video quality is in original and 720p. submitted by /u/Spewdoo [link] [comments]”
“I watched this video before and im 1000% sure this video is in 1440p. Now I can't change it to >360p. submitted by /u/lilsolid0068 [link] [comments]”
“There are some of my videos which defaults to 1080p and there are some that I upload and are defaulting to 360 and I have to manually adjust them to 1080p to watch them or tell friends to do this. Why is this happening and how do i fix this? It is really frustrating and I cant find any information on google bc it all directs to youtube on phone for settings submitted by /u/DinosaurNailedit [link] [comments]”
“This is on desktop (web player). You can easily tell when you get to a part of the video with text and it's so blurry that you can't even read it. At "1080p", supposedly. Clearing cookies+storage doesn't seem to fix it. Any suggestions? (Other than "turn off your adblocker".) submitted by /u/Mycohl [link] [comments]”
“On desktop, when I refresh or open a new youtube tab, the playback speed will automatically be set to 1.25x. I have to manually go into the video settings and set it back to normal. Is anyone else having this issue? Is there a way to make it stop? submitted by /u/scaramouches_simp [link] [comments]”
“Hi! Could you please add a "press and hold to speed up" gesture? How it works: When I press and hold my finger on the screen, the video plays at 2x speed. When I let go: The video immediately goes back to normal speed. https://github.com/user attachments/assets/3c1085ae c2e1 45b4 9831 207c7d1353df”
“Whenever I open a video, then exit the app or close my phone's screen without pausing it, when i start the video again the video becomes choppy. Like it's playing in 5fps submitted by /u/iTzTim21 [link] [comments]”
“I have 3 Chromecasts 4K units that worked great. Each started to play broken 360 video at different times. I just bought a new Google TV Streamer hoping that would work correctly, same issue. Worked great for a years all of sudden they all eventually force 360 in to a distorted 2d image. Seems like a bad update but it been months since my 1st unit acted up with no fix. Oddly casting 360 content from YouTube to the old og Chromecasts displays 360 correctly but you can control the video direction.”
“Every time i close yt(but keep window) and reopen it video just play in 4fps how to fix it? submitted by /u/SaltPuzzleheaded3124 [link] [comments]”
“I bought a movie at HD quality, only to open it on my PC, which also happens to be the only device in my house with a 4k screen, and find that it can only play at 480P. After searching around for a bit it does seem to me like there's no way to play my movie on my PC at any bearable quality. I cannot one-click return the movie because YouTube claims I "watched" it despite having only seen less than a minute of it. No, I do not want to hassle with YT support, and I know that cancelli”
“Recently I've noticed that in low resolution, unconventional 'swimming' effects appear. This differs from how it usually looks. Normally, a blurring is visible only for high details. For example a tree's leaves, or confetti particles. A 'ghosting', swimming-type effect like this... have you noticed it? submitted by /u/vierfarbkuli [link] [comments]”
There is no issue when playing Shorts in the standard player. However, when using the native Shorts player, the playback speed adjustment feature is missing. Currently, I am using a separate Chrome…
“So for context for the past year if have been using the youtube app on my fire stick to watch youtube but everytime I try to increase the speed of the video to 2x which is the usual speed I watch it at on my phone and laptop the video quality goes back 480p this is especially prominent on longform videos. So I have been stuck watching 480p videos for the last year submitted by /u/ImKrakin [link] [comments]”
“On both my phone and tablet ive set the video quality of all downloaded videos to Full HD (1080). Yet for some reason when I add videos to my Download Later playlist, which then get automatically downloaded, the quality drops to 360p which I can't change. Just downloading videos on their own sets them to 1080p, but how can I get the videos in the playlist to reflect this? submitted by /u/TeenJesusSuperStar [link] [comments]”
“Screenshot of a recurring issue on youtube where half of the video has a different color grading than the other half As you can see in the screenshot, I recently got some kind of issues reproducible on Chrome and Zen / Firefox where the bit-rate of the videos (in 1080p) is complete sh*t; half of the video has a different color grading than the other, color grading switches every 30sec from blueish to reddish. submitted by /u/quadra-lab [link] [comments]”
“I just rented a movie on YouTube only to find out it’s limited to 480p at the max. Is there a reason to why? I’ve tried updating the app, I’ve tried playing it on my TV and my phone and it’s still only maxes out at 480p. i’m not really trying to watch any movie in that low of resolution. submitted by /u/justaguy689 [link] [comments]”
“Dune Part 3 teaser streaming at 1080 and see how highly visible the grey and black pixels are. Not just that I have been experiencing this since a long time at every video that has black colouration on youtube, at first I thought the contrast between light and dark suddenly changing does it. But here the dark portion is just slightly outside of the sunlight's (or any light sources) range and it so disturbingly visible. And its not a fault of my mobile screen as this never happens when I play”
“Bug description Remember Playback speed not working..its happening after reopening the app everytime while playing video Using latest dev patches App version patched 21.32.6 Error logs Acknowledgements [x] I have checked all open and closed bug reports and this is not a duplicate. [x] All requested information has been provided properly.”
“Close to 2 months ago now I wanted to hear how a song sounded slightly sped up (x1.1 speed) and now whenever I refresh the page or restart my PC Youtube defaults to x1.1 speed instead of just x1 and I don't notice until I inevitably listen to a song and notice that it's wrong. How can I make it not do that and just be normal speed. submitted by /u/Michael_Mirage [link] [comments]”
“cant even watch yt and the resoulution gets reset back to 720 from 1440 or 1080p submitted by /u/Ok_Maximum6219 [link] [comments]”
“I'd love to have the option for setting a default playback speed, like 1.5x for example instead of having to manually increase it every video. Thank you for the tweak!”
“Recently for the past two months yt has been absurdly slow, every video starts buffering after a few seconds into a video and the quality automatically drops to 360p and the video quality setting either vanishes from moded clients or just stays disable on real yt tf is happening? And I know for a fact that my internet ain't the issue. submitted by /u/Go_Limitless [link] [comments]”
“My video quality is unable to go above 480p. Just yesterday I had the regular 720p, 1080, and 1444p, but today all of those options are gone. Any idea on what may be causing this? submitted by /u/Simulacrum37 [link] [comments]”
“Keep trying to change resolution from 480P to 4K but it never saves my changes, it just stays at 480P, any help? submitted by /u/ResolutionKnown8345 [link] [comments]”
“Every once in a while (like every 3 or so videos) it will just default to 2x speed and I have no idea why, wondering if this is happening to anyone else submitted by /u/Key-Resist4380 [link] [comments]”
“Every time I watch penguinz0 video, it keeps buffering every 2 seconds and the quality keeps jumping from 144 to 1080 to 480 randomly. But I know my internet isn’t the problem because every other video that wasn’t made by him can run 1080p60 just fine. This only happens on my iPad A16. Any ideas how to fix this? I’ve tried reinstalling. submitted by /u/tapshyon2 [link] [comments]”