Let me preface that this is driving me nuts. It's been years and I can't find a solution, and all other people talking about this don't get answered too.
While streaming a youtube video from the Android app to my Chromecast, I cannot change the resolution manually, and automatically won't ever go up to 1080p. Max is 720, and most of the time stays at 480.
All other competing apps, like twitch, videostream, or whatever else I use work perfectly. It's not my bandwidth, or interference, or anything like that.
I've put my Chromecast in the preview program just in case, no dice. Reinstalled, factory reset both app and device, the problem persists.
I really really can't understand why can't I just pick the quality from my phone while streaming. Seems like a very basic, elemental feature that once existed but was removed for some reason.
To rub salt into the wound, ads play at the crispiest they can. Pristine picture. But only on ads that interrupt my watching. I'm beginning to think it has something to do with it. Maybe The feature is gone so I buy premium?
I've already tried that. It makes it easier so that the video will stay at 720, but will never go past that (unless it's an ad)
As I said, this problem persists through the years, the hardware, service, and configuration
Other apps just let me choose what I want from the phone
