It’s something you’re going to have to deal with. At best, you could set your desktop You. Tube to ‘prefer AV1’ as shown below: More sharing options More sharing options.
Yet another query we ran across in our research was “Why is your YouTube video in 360p?”.
, the you Tube Video Is New You. Tube is a powerful social platform that supports up to 4K video streaming. As is known to all, the higher video resolution brings bigger size and longer processing time. To upload your video faster, the server will process your video in low resolution, which is 360p.
, you Tube shows 360p or 720p videos because it is adjusting to the Internet bandwidth and speed the device is connected to. If your data plan or your phone cannot handle the requirements of a specific video, the video will not load properly.
Why is the video quality defaulting to 360p?
If your connection is as sufficient as you say it is, it will default the video quality to 360p (it does in my case). Highly active question. Earn 10 reputation (not counting the association bonus) in order to answer this question.
However, this ” auto” quality seems to be synonymous with 360p – even when fullscreening the video, the quality remains at 360p. Is this really how the “auto” quality feature is supposed to work?
One way to think about this is when the upload process has been finished, your video can be watched in low resolution – 360p on a wide variety of devices. The resolutions of 4K or 1080p are higher than 360p, and they need more time to be processed.
Is there a way to change YouTube’s default video quality?
There is a userscript, You. Tube Auto Buffer & Auto HD, for the Firefox/Iceweasel extension Greasemonkey that (among other things) allows you to override You. Tube’s default quality setting. Show activity on this post. If you’re using Firefox, this add on is the Occam’s Razor of solutions. Show activity on this post.