Youtube resolution now locked at 360p after update?

[WhiteOnWhiteMY]

Is this widespread? I haven't yet had a chance to check on my vehicle. I assume this change would be classified as an unintentional bug; no way they'll limit it to 360p even on wifi; that'd be silly, lol. Why even have a high-resolution screen if you make it impossible to enjoy content on it? I can't genuinely see why they'd do this intentionally.

 

[ThatMike]

Is this widespread? I haven't yet had a chance to check on my vehicle. I assume this change would be classified as an unintentional bug; no way they'll limit it to 360p even on wifi; that'd be silly, lol. Why even have a high-resolution screen if you make it impossible to enjoy content on it? I can't genuinely see why they'd do this intentionally.

Yes! I am in Canada, I have premium subscription, the resolution is locked to 360P, also speed is locked, nothing can be changed. WTF.

 

[ath3rs]

Same for me, awful quality. No difference if I hot spot either. Surely it will be fixed soon!

 

[UncleCreepy]

Surely it will be fixed soon!

It seems pretty obvious to me that Tesla intentionally lowered the resolution to save money. I don't think they have any intentions of fixing something that they already consider "fixed". The fact that it's locked to 360p even on WiFi is probably just collateral damage.
SCNR: And don't call me Shirley 😁

 

[vcor]

Using the Tesla browser, I went to my own website, clicked on an embedded youtube video, and it plays in 720p. It has a resolution icon, and I can up it to 1080P. The downside is it can't go to full screen. The full-screen button on youtube is ignored. Spreading your fingers on the video, you can expand the video out to the browser edges, but you can't make the browser full screen. I haven't tried it with 4G, only home WiFi. Here is the page I went to if others want to try it out: Tshow – Front End Light Show – TeslaTap

 

[ThatMike]

It seems pretty obvious to me that Tesla intentionally lowered the resolution to save money. I don't think they have any intentions of fixing something that they already consider "fixed". The fact that it's locked to 360p even on WiFi is probably just collateral damage.
SCNR: And don't call me Shirley 😁

I doubt about it. Who is sitting in the car watching videos all day?

 

[D Good]

There is no way they are going to keep this. People buy these cars for this. Supercharging while watching YouTube was amazing but now it sucks. Please put it back. Please

 

[Canada_dude]

Exactly. I was sharing this with a friend and he joked about how I should just use a VHS machine and CRT screen to watch videos if I can't get more than 360. I hope Tesla realizes the Youtube resolution restriction and does something about it.
Note: when I watched Disney+ the resolution looked good so I don't think it is a mobile carrier restriction.

 

[ath3rs]

Exactly. I was sharing this with a friend and he joked about how I should just use a VHS machine and CRT screen to watch videos if I can't get more than 360. I hope Tesla realizes the Youtube resolution restriction and does something about it.
Note: when I watched Disney+ the resolution looked good so I don't think it is a mobile carrier restriction.

I can confirm Netflix is also OK, HD quality

 

[D Good]

My theory is that the realized how slow YouTube was running on the atom at higher quality settings. Their “fix” was just to limit it to 360p and now it’s running like a dream at the expense video quality. I would rather have the slow performance and high video quality than have the app actually run well.

Is it limited to 360p on the AMD?

 

[arbitrage000]

Hopefully this is just on YTs end and it will be fixed. Not some downgrade to limit bandwidth on Tesla's end.
We did have a month or more of Disney+ only loading a black screen after selecting your show. That was fixed by Disney eventually.

 

[primedive]

I’m hitting this too. Hopefully it’s fixed soon as I was getting videos in nice quality and 1080p60 just a couple days ago.

 

[D Good]

So what has happened is they have switched to using the mobile app interface (probably less cpu intensive than the old website based interface) and clearly forgot to check that this stuff still works. They should fix soon.

 

[Jeeps17]

My theory is that the realized how slow YouTube was running on the atom at higher quality settings. Their “fix” was just to limit it to 360p and now it’s running like a dream at the expense video quality. I would rather have the slow performance and high video quality than have the app actually run well.

Is it limited to 360p on the AMD?

Yes, settings are also locked in my 2022 S with AMD.

Given that I did not update my car firmware recently I also suspect it is a YouTube-side change. Hopefully temporary.

 

[Ozbenh]

Found workaround

When selecting the broken resolution menu in the settings, move the leftmost steering wheel control left (IE as in switching to previous song) and I'm able to iterate through resolutions. I had to keep a finger on the resolution widget that fails to turn into a menu while doing the first "left" click

 

[Ozbenh]

Found workaround

When selecting the broken resolution menu in the settings, move the leftmost steering wheel control left (IE as in switching to previous song) and I'm able to iterate through resolutions. I had to keep a finger on the resolution widget that fails to turn into a menu while doing the first "left" click

Note: This seems to indicate that it's a combination of YouTube selecting a sub standard default for Teslas and the Tesla UI not supporting pop up menus

 

[ThatMike]

Note: This seems to indicate that it's a combination of YouTube selecting a sub standard default for Teslas and the Tesla UI not supporting pop up menus

So it is a tesla browser bug... they should upgrade to latest chromium.

 

[CaptUAL]

Found workaround

When selecting the broken resolution menu in the settings, move the leftmost steering wheel control left (IE as in switching to previous song) and I'm able to iterate through resolutions. I had to keep a finger on the resolution widget that fails to turn into a menu while doing the first "left" click

OZbenh, you’re a bloody genius👍. Back to watching the girls in 4K😛🤣🤣👍Thanks👌

 

[Jimmytootall]

As mentioned this sounds very much like a YouTube update that’s knocked the options for other resolutions off the list..

YouTube supports certain browsers and I suspect the version of “Chromium” (the underlying tech used in Google Chrome) the Tesla browser uses is a little old now and thus options are limited..

If that’s the case I’d expect Tesla to upgrade the web browser at some stage..

YouTube videos missing quality options on this browser - YouTube Help

YouTube videos are available in many formats and qualities. But, some browsers do not support newer video formats or quality options. This restriction means these browsers may only have one or two vid

support.google.com

 

[Maaz]

yeah same here, I’m also seeing all other media apps not displaying the best quality they used to before. Hope this gets fixed soon.