How to play 4K Videos in any Android Device

 How to play 4K
Videos in any Android Device

As you know most of the Android
Devices won’t play 4K Videos and on YouTube app the Video quality is depends upon
Smartphone resolution and pixels.

4K Videos are also not
compatible with Google Apps and some other external video players on Android
Platform like MX Player, VLC Player, etc.

There’s no other way for
us to play 4K videos on Android’s YouTube App and also on other Video Players
due to mobile resolution it’s been fixed. So, we can’t increase the video
resolution on Android Devices. 

But, there’s many third-party
apps by which we can play 4K videos on any Android Device…….

In this article I’m going
to tell you how to play 4K videos on and android device by a third-party app
and also by using Google chrome.

 

Playing 4K Videos
on Android by Using third-party apps:

 There are many third-party apps which doesn’t
use Google Framework Libraries or the YouTube API and those type of Apps uses only
parses the website in order to gain information from the site.

This third-party apps
can also be run on Android Devices in which Google Services are not Installed.

To Play 4K YouTube
Videos on any Android Device you need to download NewPipe – The Lightweight YouTube Experience
for Android and this App is not available on Google Play Store.

So, you need to download
it from its Official Website NewPipe.

NewPipe is an Android
application which doesn’t use Google Framework Libraries or YouTube API. It is an
Open Source free to use application software from Team NewPipe.

The Great thing about
this application is that they provided their source code in their GitHub account.

If you want to check-out
their Source Code in GitHub then here is the link https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe

Step 1:

Download New Pipe
Application from its Official Website or from any other websites.

Click here to download NewPipe from Official
Website.

Click here download
NewPipe Application from External Source.

Step 2:

Install NewPipe Application
on your Android Device.

To Install NewPipe, you
need to allow your android device to install apps from unknown sources.

You can do it by Allowing
installation of apps from unknown sources.

To Enable this setting
in your Android mobile

• Open Settings.
• Go to Security.

In Device Administration
section you will find unknown sources.

• Turn on Unknown Sources
  and That’s it.

• After this Install NewPipe
  Application.

 

Step 3:

• Open NewPipe.
• Go to Settings by
  clicking 3 dotted button on upper right side.

• Select Video and Audio from
  Settings.

• Now here, you need to change
  resolution settings of both default resolution and default popup resolution to
  best resolution as shown in below image.

• After that, Enable Higher
  Resolution option to play your device 2K and 4K videos.

Step 4:

• Now Search for any 4K
  video in NewPipe App.
• Open video and select
  video quality.

• In video quality options
  you can set video resolution up to 4K as shown in below image. 

Now you can enjoy 4K
YouTube video in your android device.

 

Alternate Method:

The Alternate method for
playing YouTube Videos on your android device is by using Google Chrome.

Yes, by opening YouTube as
a desktop site in your chrome you can watch 4K videos of YouTube in your Google
Chrome browser.

Here is a complete steps
to play 4K YouTube Videos on Google Chrome.

• Open Google Chrome.
• Enter url: https://m.youtube.com

• Now click on three dots
  from top right corner and enable desktop site.

That’s it.

• Now search for any 4K video
  and play the video.

• Now Select quality you
  can here choose 4K resolution and watch video at 4K in Google Chrome

Here is the Complete
video of My YouTube channel which will explain you how to play 4K videos in any
Android Device….

For More detailed information
watch it…

 

Hope, this article will
help you.

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