On my Android phone, I have download quality on WiFi set to original. But when i download videos, often it transcodes anyway. The odd thing is that I can direct play these files that are being transcoded. How can I fix this, or is this just a bug?
Answer:
Please check out this post for more information around our download plans. In addition to that, we will be taking a look at the text and context around what is displayed when selecting a download quality. It isn’t technically a bug that it is transcoding something set to Original, but it isn’t a great experience as we have given the team lots of feedback that this “Original Quality” label has created a lot of confusion. It is definitely something that the team hopes to address in upcoming work around downloads.
