Popup playback takes a significant amount of time to load the video.

[netizeni]

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Affected version

0.22.1

Steps to reproduce the bug

Play any video in popup mode.

Expected behavior

Video starts playing after a couple seconds.

Actual behavior

Video starts playing after 25+ seconds.

Screenshots/Screen recordings

No response

Logs

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Affected Android/Custom ROM version

Android 9

Affected device model

Samsung S8

Additional information

I noticed this before the current latest version (I'm not sure when exactly), but I always thought it's due to my internet. Today I saw that playing any video by clicking on it or playing any video in the background takes only a couple seconds to load and start playing, meanwhile when I pick to play in the popup, it always takes 25+ seconds after which it starts playing.

[ghost]

Might be the duplicate of #7630
If so, it's already fixed. Just need to wait for the next update, donno when that is.

[netizeni]

I saw that issue you opened, but I'm not sure is it a duplicate. In my case, opening a video normally or in a background takes only a couple of seconds to start playing.

If no other options, guess I will wait for the next update and see if it will help.

[NanyangTaiji]

In comparing to SkyTube, the loading take much more times for almost all videos. It did not happen before.

[blackholeearth]

This is present in v23 too. The problem cant be fixed, by reducing buffer size alone. In this case.

when watching videos, Player is trying to download
In this order ;

1. comments,
2. related videos
3. video title description video cover image
   ***Wait all of them to load ***
4. Then video starts to download. And play.

Solution is:

1. video starts to download. And play.
   *** Wait until video buffer at least 30sec or 1min. User can watch the start.
2. comments,
3. related videos
4. video title description video cover image

Note:This just observation, didnt checked the source code.

[opusforlife2]

Player is trying to download
In this order ;

From what I remember, they are fetched in parallel. The smaller stuff just loads faster, for obvious reasons.