On 17 August YouTube rotated its player and video stopped loading for everyone on 1.9.0. This release fixes that, and it also fixes rewinding, which never worked properly in 1.9.0.
Fixes
- Video plays again after the 17 August player rotation. The app was telling YouTube one player was in use while answering the challenge with another, and every segment came back refused. Both now come from the same file, so they cannot drift apart when YouTube rotates again.
- Rewinding works. Jumping back in a video, or dragging the scrubber backwards, used to stall until the video was reopened.
- Starting a video no longer waits for the playback service to warm up. It is now warmed in the background once the home feed has loaded.
- Resuming a video from history lands in one step instead of loading the beginning first.
- Long videos use less battery. A two-hour video was reporting your position to YouTube 488 times, and it now reports once a minute.