YouTube app buffering problem

[TriggerFinger]

Recently i started watching YouTube videos on my mobile.

Earlier i used chrome (android) for that purpose but unfortunately chrome doesn't provide any options to change the video quality and is by default set you the lowest quality..

Hence i had to switch to the android YouTube app.

But since then i have been facing this problem..

My WiFi connection isn't blazing fast to stream HD videos real-time..

So i have to leave my phone for sometime so that it buffers the video..

But in the YouTube app as I start buffering and leave my phone idle.. as soon as the screen turns off the buffering stops..

Also if i have buffered some amount of video before leaving the phone idle. With screen being turned off then even the previously buffered data is lost.. And I have to start buffering it again....

Have you guys faced the same problem?

I constantly watch videos over 30 min or so... With this problem I am noy able to watch YouTube videos on my phone...

There should be a way to treat this problem??

Isn't it??

[Xenift]

The easiest way to fix a problem like this is to get better internet, for youtube video watching assuming that you have a 720p phones requires at least a 30up/down connection to function flawlessly.

 

Another method would be downloading your videos to a application to enable offline viewing and pre buffered goodness.

 

I think most of the applications that do this don't exist anymore because of Youtube having a special code that doesn't allow downloads, but there are still some applications that do it, you just have to do some searching.

 

 

[TriggerFinger]

The function of offline viewing had been integrated with the YouTube app as well but the problem is for a 30 min 720p videos the download size is about 500-600mb least..

I can easily watch that video on my computer without having to waste about half a GB of data.. My pc buffers well..

Buffering on mobile is becoming an issue..

Why cant the YouTube app bufferin the background??

Is there a way to do it???