[Feature request] Software acceleration in the built-in player

[daany123]

As a person who have an older budget device and have to stick with it for a long time to go, I found NewPipe Legacy very interesting as a good alternative towards the official YouTube app. The main reason is because NewPipe happens to include external player support and while the official app and other alternatives struggle to run smoothly at my device, NewPipe work smooth as silk.

But this method of using external video player comes with a cost. The app was unable to make video player run 144p, 240p, 480p with sound. Secondly, due to integrated video player doesn't support SW acceleration, whenever I tried to run a video in PiP mode, it just became a mess much like how the official app didn't work with my phone in the first place.

Please integrate SW acceleration option for your built-in video player. That should make many legacy devices work with the app better.