Youtube on Roku TV Question

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KoachKrab127

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I like watching long playlists on youtube over time, but the problem is it takes forever scrolling through the playlist to find where you stopped watching previously. This isn’t a problem on the Youtube app on a phone or on a computer, but the scrolling is so slow on a Roku TV app. Does anyone know a way to scroll faster through youtube playlists on a Roku TV? Thanks.
 
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KoachKrab127 said:
I like watching long playlists on youtube over time, but the problem is it takes forever scrolling through the playlist to find where you stopped watching previously. This isn’t a problem on the Youtube app on a phone or on a computer, but the scrolling is so slow on a Roku TV app. Does anyone know a way to scroll faster through youtube playlists on a Roku TV? Thanks.
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Trying to envision this problem since I have the exact same setup and haven’t really noticed that. I watch YouTube all the time on Roku.
 
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GAVol said:
Trying to envision this problem since I have the exact same setup and haven’t really noticed that. I watch YouTube all the time on Roku.
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Open a large playlist of like 300 videos on the roku youtube app. Scroll down, and you’ll notice that it takes almost 1 second to move from video to video, and sometimes you have to pause and wait for the thumbnails of the lower videos to load as you scroll. So it takes about 3 or 4 minutes to scroll all the way to the bottom. You can’t scroll reverse from video 1 to 300 (that would be helpful). You can’t automatically skip from video 1 to video 100 or anything like that, you just have to hold the down button and wait…wait…wait. On your phone or computer, you can scroll rapidly, the videos move by extremely fast when you scroll down on those, but I can’t figure out how to make it go faster on the TV.
 
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KoachKrab127 said:
Open a large playlist of like 300 videos on the roku youtube app. Scroll down, and you’ll notice that it takes almost 1 second to move from video to video, and sometimes you have to pause and wait for the thumbnails of the lower videos to load as you scroll. So it takes about 3 or 4 minutes to scroll all the way to the bottom. You can’t scroll reverse from video 1 to 300 (that would be helpful). You can’t automatically skip from video 1 to video 100 or anything like that, you just have to hold the down button and wait…wait…wait. On your phone or computer, you can scroll rapidly, the videos move by extremely fast when you scroll down on those, but I can’t figure out how to make it go faster on the TV.
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Ever tried it using your phone as the remote using the the Rokcontrol app? Wondering if the track pad in that app might allow you to scroll a lot faster than clicking a remote.
 
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GAVol said:
Ever tried it using your phone as the remote using the the Rokcontrol app? Wondering if the track pad in that app might allow you to scroll a lot faster than clicking a remote.
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Yes, I have tried that, but I couldn’t figure out how to make it go faster.

Edit: I should have said that I tried it on the Roku app, but not on the Rokcontrol app. I’ll download Rokcontrol and try it. Thanks for the suggestion.
 
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GAVol said:
Ever tried it using your phone as the remote using the the Rokcontrol app? Wondering if the track pad in that app might allow you to scroll a lot faster than clicking a remote.
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Just tried this. Not sure it’s exactly what you’re after but it’s definitely faster than the regular remote.
 
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GAVol said:
Just tried this. Not sure it’s exactly what you’re after but it’s definitely faster than the regular remote.
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After I downloaded Rokcontrol, it says you have to pay monthly for it. Is there a free one?
 
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KoachKrab127 said:
I’m not sure what you mean by “cast.”
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That's surprising. Search google for what the cast icon looks like, find it on youtube app (next to the notification bell icon at the top), click it. Then cast to whatever device you want to use.

I use it that way because the app is cumbersome on the TV, much faster to just use the phone to search and cast. Im not sure it loads playlists though as I don't use them.
 
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thehardknoxlife said:
That's surprising. Search google for what the cast icon looks like, find it on youtube app (next to the notification bell icon at the top), click it. Then cast to whatever device you want to use.

I use it that way because the app is cumbersome on the TV, much faster to just use the phone to search and cast. Im not sure it loads playlists though as I don't use them.
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That’s very useful, thanks, but unfortunately, I can’t get it to work for playlists.
 
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thehardknoxlife said:
That's surprising. Search google for what the cast icon looks like, find it on youtube app (next to the notification bell icon at the top), click it. Then cast to whatever device you want to use.

I use it that way because the app is cumbersome on the TV, much faster to just use the phone to search and cast. Im not sure it loads playlists though as I don't use them.
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Does that work with a Roku? I thought that was a chromecast thing.

Edit: Holy @#$% it works. Screen mirror is handy too if your browser/app doesn't support casting. Learn something new every day.
 
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