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The YouTube player is a bit of a mess these days.

- you never know what bit rates are going to be available, different rates are shown for embeds and the YouTube site.

- sometimes fullscreen is available, sometimes it's not

- region blocking. ugh.

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I don't mind it changing from 360 to 480 when I go to the enlarged view. But yeah, I don't want it to change it when I go full screen as I should have chosen the bitrate by then myself.

What does amaze me is the difference in audio quality sometimes between 360p/480p and going to 720p/1080p HD. For some music, it's significantly better in HD. Listen to the start of this in 360p and then swap it to 720p for example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQlIhraqL7o

>> ^dag:

The YouTube player is a bit of a mess these days.
- you never know what bit rates are going to be available, different rates are shown for embeds and the YouTube site.
- sometimes fullscreen is available, sometimes it's not
- region blocking. ugh.
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I haven't seen the ol' bit rate switcharoo that you're talking about. Stop using a Mac. All your problems should go away. ALL of them.

- I have never noticed a difference between the bit rates available for embeds and at YouTube itself, only because I've never taken the time to check that out. But now I will. I promise. I'm a changed man. I swear. Don't leave me.

- I have noticed that fullscreen is not always available. Case in point: Trombone boobies. And that, sir, is a crime.

- From what I've seen here, region blocking has been going on at YouTube for some time now. I think I've only experienced it once, with a BBC video. And because I'm an American, that is grounds for war. We didn't save the Swedes from the Mexicans just for this shit.

Yes to all of this.

I really dislike how it switches to 480 when I go to fullscreen, what insensetive bastards, they just assume everyone has a video card over 64 megs. Someone over at there office wearing their ass as a neck tie.

Yay! People who share my frustrations!

Oh yes, gives me the absolute craps. I've watched, say, 30% of a video with it in the window, and it's loaded the entire thing already, then I decide I would like to see it larger and the DAMN THING pauses, then reloads the entire rest of the video all over again even though I had already done it. If I wanted to see it at 480p I would select it, don't force it on me.

Yes, yes, yes it needs to be an option to switch this off, gives me the shits.

Their android app is just as bad, it always default to high quality when on Wifi, with no option to disable this (you can only chose that you would like it to default TO high even if you're on mobile).

Yeah, well, for some reason or other my phone doesn't like to play the hi quality streams nicely so I would LIKE to be able to define that I DON'T want it to default to high quality... but NOOO.

It's like they WANT to waste bandwidth.

Been changing bitrates automatically for weeks, months really.

As for region blocking: if it has music, chances are that it's blocked in Germany. Which is why I stopped calling "blocked" altogether.

It's been doing that for ever. It can be really annoying, but it hasn't gotten me all that riled up. It should definitely be something you could disable.

Does it still happen when logged into YouTube? I never really care unless it is really bad. I have cheap/low-end audio and tiny video setup to really notice.