YouTube quality worse when casting to tv instead of using the native app?

by Professor_Dr_Dr

It seems pretty weird to me that there is even a distinction between videos that you send to the tv to play and videos you select on the tv directly (like way less options, different UI)

It somehow seems that the quality is worse as well when casting from the YouTube Android Phone App, or is it just me?

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Edit: it has been confirmed that it is lower quality, especially 4k Videos are only played in 1080p

u/yothisisyo suggested a great way to fix this:

Just go to the tv app and in the settings open the "link within code" tab Then type that code into the YouTube phone app and the videos will be played using the superior player (with queue and all that stuff)

luca910

Ye casting only up to 1080 i think no 4k support

pawdog

I never notice any difference.

NytronX

Not sure if this works for the case of casting from phone, but in general with Youtube, look at the "Stats for Nerd" option. Sometimes the official Youtube app will sometimes not opt for the highest quality setting.

yothisisyo

I recommend linking your phone to Native app on TV , go to your Youtube TV App settings , Link with Phone (xxx yyy zzz) code will be shown , Enter it on your phone . Your phone will be linked to Youtube ,all the videos you play on phone are added to queue on TV app and are not casted instead played on TV App

TorrentFiend

Casting always reduces the quality. This is not unusual. In fact this is what always happens when you cast any video. Quality always gets reduced.

Android TV has Chromecast built in which is actually very very good but if you are casting anything the quality will always look a little bit worse than the original device it's being casted from.

The real reason is why are you casting at all? Don't you have any application connected to your television that can play YouTube? YouTube app is pretty much available on every platform is it not?if I find something I want to watch on YouTube and then realize I want to display it on my television I usually just start the first second or two of the video on my tablet or phone and then it's saved in the play history so I can then easily pull it up quickly on my Roku or Nvidia Shield by going the watched videos section from the main menu. Very fast and easy to then watch the full original quality video in a proper YouTube app on my TV instead of having to mess with casting.

Casting is a very cruddy solution if you want good video quality. Just get a great device like a Roku or Nvidia Shield so that you have the freedom to easily play back anything you wish on your TV so you don't have to do something like casting anymore, ever.