YouTube for Android TV MOD APK ( Unlocked, No Ads)

YouTube for Android TV Mod APK allows you to enjoy YouTube on Google TV without any ads, providing a seamless and uninterrupted viewing experience.

Features

• Watch YouTube without ads
• Original UI
• Compatible with Google TV
• Remove over-sharpening for video playback
• hardware decoding
• Block ads with uBlock Origin
• Skip sponsor segments with SponsorBlock
• Adjust video speed using Up/Down buttons (up to ∞) on the remote with Youtube Speed Control.
• Replaces thumbnails with Clickbait Remover for Youtube (experiment, not available now).

Video quality

YouTube Origin s video playback up to 4K@30fps (require device 4K UI for all apps). However, most devices will be limited to 1080P@30fps, except for devices with Realtek chipsets.

YouTube Origin does not 60fps video streams for any resolution (only 30fps streams are ed). This means that if you search for a 4K@60fps video in YouTube Origin, you will only get maximum resolution at 720P@30fps. This happens because YouTube does not provide 30fps streams for 4K@60fps or 1080P@60fps videos. As a result, only 720P or lower resolutions are available at 30fps and will be selected for playback. Additionally, YouTube Origin does not HDR for most videos on YouTube.

Starting from March 2024, YouTube will gradually replace VP9 with the new default codec AV1, so there are many videos being upgraded to AV1 causing certain resolutions to be unavailable in specific codecs.

For example, if you watching a video with 1080P set as the default quality, but for the next video, you check Quality for current video showing 720P, this is normal. This happens because 720P might be the highest available quality in AV1 (while 1080P is only available in VP9). Meaning, between 1080P VP9 & 720P AV1, 720P AV1 will be chosen for playback. Similarly, between 1080P AVC1 & 720P VP9, 720P VP9 will be preferred.

Playback Limitation on 4K TVs

This app only plays in 1080P on 4K TVs due to the weak GPUs found in most streaming devices, which can handle 4K video but render the UI at 1080P. As a result, everything displayed, including the UI, is at 1080P.

YouTube Origin determines playback resolution based on the UI resolution. If the UI is rendered at 1080P, the app can only offer a maximum of 1080P@30fps or 720P@30fps. In contrast, the official YouTube app can detect the TV’s actual resolution and force 4K playback, even with a 1080P UI.

I’ve tried to enable 4K playback by forcing the viewport, but it’s not consistently reliable. For now, I’ll stick to the native UI for easier maintenance. This issue should resolve itself once all streaming devices 4K UI.

Currently, only a few streaming devices a real 4K UI, and most of these use Realtek chipsets (e.g., RTD1315C, RTD1325) with Mali-G57 capable of handling 4K UI. YouTube Origin s 4K@30fps on these Realtek-based devices.