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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > Haus of Tech Support > YouTube default quality is driving me up the wall.
 
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Oct 5, 2003

I SHOULD KEEP MY DUMB MOUTH SHUT INSTEAD OF SPEWING HORSESHIT ABOUT THE ORBITAL MECHANICS OF THE JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE.

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT A LAGRANGE POINT IS?
I hope this is the right subforum for this. If it isn't, please point me in the right direction.

Anyway, this isn't a huge problem but it's been bugging me for a bit. For awhile now, every time I go to a YouTube video, it plays in 360p. I have to pause the video, manually switch the quality to 1080p or 720p depending on the video, then unpause it. It's rather annoying mainly because I mostly watch videos on my iPad and the buttons are tiny and hard to tap.

I've googled how to fix this and the consensus seems to be that I need to go into my account settings and change the default quality. I can't. Here's the problem. Every site I go to shows me something like this:



But on my settings, that top option isn't there. It just shows the annotation and caption settings.

What do I need to do to fix this?

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Oct 5, 2003

I SHOULD KEEP MY DUMB MOUTH SHUT INSTEAD OF SPEWING HORSESHIT ABOUT THE ORBITAL MECHANICS OF THE JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE.

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT A LAGRANGE POINT IS?

Lonos Oboe posted:

Shot in the dark here:

Have you tried changing it on a laptop/desktop? I had set my account for max quality for my computer and it murdered the bandwidth on my phone when I logged in. It seems the settings are linked for all devices (I have my youtube on 6 different devices.) and it's more than likely going to be there if you log in on a desktop or laptop.

Worth a try at least.

Yes. I may not have made it clear, but that's what I'm talking about. That option is not present on my PC.

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