YouTube HDR... finally

[Kuschelmonschter]

YouTube HDR content is finally available!

You will find a playlist here. However, these clips will be played as SDR on Sonys for now.

With youtube-dl you can find vp9.2 encodings for those clips:

330          webm       256x144    144p60  156k , vp9.2, 60fps, video only, 2.38MiB
331          webm       426x240    240p60  256k , vp9.2, 60fps, video only, 3.87MiB
332          webm       640x360    360p60  485k , vp9.2, 60fps, video only, 7.35MiB
333          webm       854x480    480p60  909k , vp9.2, 60fps, video only, 13.83MiB
334          webm       1280x720   720p60 1991k , vp9.2, 60fps, video only, 28.18MiB
335          webm       1920x1080  1080p60 3201k , vp9.2, 60fps, video only, 49.70MiB
336          webm       2560x1440  1440p60 11166k , vp9.2, 60fps, video only, 170.23MiB
337          webm       3840x2160  2160p60 20122k , vp9.2, 60fps, video only, 335.45MiB

Those are webm however which the native Video app won't play.

We will see whether we will get support for it soon, even for the early 2016 models with the old MediaTek SoC from last year. At least Sony promised that back at CES:

Spoiler

YouTube will also start streaming in HDR quality later this year, using a new VP9-Profile 2 codec that brings HDR support to Google’s VP9 video format. Sony’s Motoi Kawamura, Head of TV Product Planning for Sony Europe, confirmed to FlatpanelsHD that the 2016 models will support VP9-Profile 2 and be capable of streaming YouTube in HDR. We saw a demo at CES and it looked very good.

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[Kuschelmonschter]

I just updated my review on YouTube 2.0 and the YouTube 2.0/Chromecast issues in my bugtracker.

[Itom86]

I'm just reading you bug tracker and I noticed something. As you said the sleep/deep sleep periods are a little bit of mess. I've measured the consumption of my xd83 in idle with a power meter. It takes time to put itself into deep sleep, until that time it's runnings on 12-13W otherwise 0.5W. it wakes itself up frequently giving the result of 20W in total in 14 hours period. Which means 1.5W per hour. Not that bad, still it is 300% of the advertised 0.5W...

Anyway, I just rather keep the TV unplugged when it's not in use 😁

[Kuschelmonschter]

@Itom86, please stay on topic. I move power consumption discussions over here.

[Kuschelmonschter]

New YouTube 2.01.04 available:

• App stuttering or freezing on some devices.
• Crash when using Thai or Persian languages.
• Intermittent crash when launching on some devices.

[Kuschelmonschter]

Statistics don't work anymore for me. Do they have to hide something?

[Jecht_Sin]

The description in Google Play says that "brand accounts" (multiple channels login)  still aren't supported, but in reality they are fixed, now. Fully working!

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Kuschelmonschter wrote:

Statistics don't work anymore for me. Do they have to hide something?

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Yup. Same here. But it's also true that just after installing the update I couldn't watch a single video. I went for dinner and then it was working. So I imagine it is something that can be fixed in the servers.

Apart that I think there is something wrong with the UI. The remote control seems slower. And right now it just hanged/froze. I had to take out the batteries and put them back.

Also HDR is still  not working!! But I am quite sure Mediatek messed up with the Profile VP9.2 Codecs/APIs at this point. Again!

[Risc0n]

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@Kuschelmonschter wrote:

New YouTube 2.01.04 available:

• App stuttering or freezing on some devices.
• Crash when using Thai or Persian languages.
• Intermittent crash when launching on some devices.

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I don't see this anywhere. No update on my TV available?

[Kuschelmonschter]

So it hasn't been released to all regions yet...

[sonyfan0012]

How much of wrong/bad can they still inflict into this app?

This is beyond me 

[Jecht_Sin]

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@sonyfan0012 wrote:

How much of wrong/bad can they still inflict into this app?

This is beyond me 

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Oh... He's back..

Are you disappointed because now that 4K and the Brand Accounts/Channel Switching are finally all fixed you'll have to mourn the 1.3.11 piece of junk (R.I.P.)?