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I just got my Samsung smart TV set up and have been watching/listening to classical music videos from YouTube and some of them, especially the longer ones ( 6 hours of Beethoven) are spotty, with short "glitches", kind of like in the old days of listening to a radio station that's far away.
So is the issue the individual videos or something else?
I have an older model smart TV and my You Tube app is also glitchy. My main complaint is that the screen darkens after a minute or so as if the app is going to sleep, and there is no way to "wake" it up. All of the other apps work just fine so I think it is a problem with You Tube and not the chip within the TV. My guess is that since Google cannot yet "track" your TV they do not care enough to fix it.
I haven't noticed a problem with YouTube on my smart TV. Of course, any such program can have a buffering problem if your Internet connection is not so fast.
I just got my Samsung smart TV set up and have been watching/listening to classical music videos from YouTube and some of them, especially the longer ones ( 6 hours of Beethoven) are spotty, with short "glitches", kind of like in the old days of listening to a radio station that's far away.
So is the issue the individual videos or something else?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
That could be an API issue. YouTube is supposed to be in transition to a model where videos can be played back through HTML 5, instead of Adobe Flash, which should make things easier for developers. Google has been known to change their API in the past, which would have the effect of breaking that capability in some smart TVs, media centers, or boxes like Roku, or Amazon Fire Stick. Their end game might be to force everyone to use Chromecast or Android TV, but we really don't know for sure.
You might have better experiences playing the same videos in a browser, or through one of Google's official apps. If the videos are doing it when you play it back through other means; YouTube app on an Android device, YouTube app on a BluRay player, etc then it is the videos. It could also be the Internet connection, since you state that it is longer videos that do this more so than the shorter ones. Without troubleshooting the issue, which would include listening to them in their entirety through other means, not just scrubbing through the video to get to the problem point, there is no way of knowing.
Just FYI, when we first got our TV, I was watching You Tube on it via WiFi, and it was choppy, spotty, like what the OP said. Wiring it to Ethernet instead definitely helped! Watching You Tube on the TV is amazing. I don't care a lot for the app itself, but the videos are fantastic.
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