OnePlus 5/5T Can't Play HD Video Streams

[bcredeur97]

budget phone, budget phone problems.

 

oneplus is great but they always seem to have little annoyances like this.

[WereCatf]

42 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

budget phone, budget phone problems.

 

oneplus is great but they always seem to have little annoyances like this.

To be honest, the only annoyance I've had with the3T is that it doesn't print money.

[Noctus]

1 hour ago, mynameisjuan said:

To me its night an day.

I quite agree, it's pretty obvious when my phone goes 720 for w/e reason and I have to hit 1080.

[Matu20]

2 hours ago, mynameisjuan said:

To me its night an day. I mean hell, most S8 users can tell the difference between 1440p and 1080 for power saving. 

From a normal viewing distance of let's say 30 cm?

[LAwLz]

3 hours ago, Matu20 said:

From a normal viewing distance of let's say 30 cm?

With average vision and a distance of 30 cm you will be able to see around 300 PPI.

 

The non-plus Galaxy S8 the 1080p mode gives you 425 PPI and the native resolution gives you 567 PPI.

There are two problems though...

1) Running at less than native resolution will always look worse because of the interpolation needed.

2) The Galaxy S8 uses a pentile subpixel matrix which means the red and blue resolutions are only ~2/3 of the green one.

 

So the PPI of red and blue is actually around 280 in 1080p mode, which is below the range for average vision.

In the 1440p mode that subpixel PPI for blue and red goes up to 403, which is quite a bit above the average human vision for 30 cm distance.

[Magnetorheological]

11 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

budget phone, budget phone problems.

 

oneplus is great but they always seem to have little annoyances like this.

The only problem is, $500 is hardly a "budget" price. Even phones at half the price of the OP5T shouldn't have little niggles like this.

[D13H4RD]

Never Settle for DRM-protected 1080p content 

[bcredeur97]

40 minutes ago, Magnetorheological said:

The only problem is, $500 is hardly a "budget" price. Even phones at half the price of the OP5T shouldn't have little niggles like this.

True. But if their whole goal is to have a flagship phone beater for half the price they are doing it... the best phones always seem to be $1k nowadays...

[Matu20]

15 hours ago, LAwLz said:

With average vision and a distance of 30 cm you will be able to see around 300 PPI.

 

The non-plus Galaxy S8 the 1080p mode gives you 425 PPI and the native resolution gives you 567 PPI.

There are two problems though...

1) Running at less than native resolution will always look worse because of the interpolation needed.

2) The Galaxy S8 uses a pentile subpixel matrix which means the red and blue resolutions are only ~2/3 of the green one.

 

So the PPI of red and blue is actually around 280 in 1080p mode, which is below the range for average vision.

In the 1440p mode that subpixel PPI for blue and red goes up to 403, which is quite a bit above the average human vision for 30 cm distance.

Yeah, that was my point, while not pixel peeping, it's very hard to notice one res over another.

[Sauron]

Personally I would find that a selling point (DRM must die), but I can see how others may consider it a problem. Just give us a setting to turn it off 1+, ok?

[AlTech]

1 hour ago, Sauron said:

Personally I would find that a selling point (DRM must die), but I can see how others may consider it a problem. Just give us a setting to turn it off 1+, ok?

OnePlus replied to me on Twitter and said they're bringing Level 1 support soon.

[Sauron]

6 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

OnePlus replied to me on Twitter and said their bringing Level 1 support soon.

Custom rom time for me I guess. Not that I'll get that update, but eventually I'll need a new phone

[AlTech]

3 minutes ago, Sauron said:

Custom rom time for me I guess. Not that I'll get that update, but eventually I'll need a new phone

Oh don't worry OnePlus hates pushing updates. They rushed the launch of the 5T in order to avoid having to provide Treble support for it.

 

Soon I'll install Lineage cos there will be no more major updates on OP3 and OP3T allegedly (despite being a 2016 flagship).

[Sauron]

53 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

Oh don't worry OnePlus hates pushing updates. They rushed the launch of the 5T in order to avoid having to provide Treble support for it.

 

Soon I'll install Lineage cos there will be no more major updates on OP3 and OP3T allegedly (despite being a 2016 flagship).

Yes, well, I have a oneplus X so I haven't had updates for a while now. At least they delivered marshmallow as promised and it's not very buggy. Still, given the price I can look the other way, but nowadays their phones cost almost as much as Samsung's or Huawei's. Meizu is the hot chinese brand nowadays according to my sources.

[Zodiark1593]

4 hours ago, AluminiumTech said:

Oh don't worry OnePlus hates pushing updates. They rushed the launch of the 5T in order to avoid having to provide Treble support for it.

 

Soon I'll install Lineage cos there will be no more major updates on OP3 and OP3T allegedly (despite being a 2016 flagship).

Be warned that Netflix doesn't support custom ROMs or root. Without a workaround (I think currently, one called Magisk), you won't be watching Netflix at all, nevermind the HD streams.

[AlTech]

7 hours ago, Zodiark1593 said:

Be warned that Netflix doesn't support custom ROMs or root. Without a workaround (I think currently, one called Magisk), you won't be watching Netflix at all, nevermind the HD streams.

Wait what? Lmao . Netflix won't have my money then...