Playing videos in the browser

Yandex Browser for Mobile can open mp4, webm, ogv, and x-m4v video files.

flv, wmv, and hls video files are not supported.

Manage videos

Skip forward/back

To skip 10 seconds forward or back, tap twice on the right or left edge of the video, respectively.

View videos on top of apps

Note

This feature isn't available to all users because it's still in development.

If you switch to a different app when viewing a full-screen video in Yandex Browser, it continues playing in a small pop-out window, which appears on top of the other app (also known as Picture in Picture, or PiP). Tap the pop-out window to go back to viewing the video in Yandex Browser. You can drag the video window to any part of your screen.

To enable this feature:

Tap Меню → .

  1. Go to Main.

  2. In the Advanced section, enable the Picture-in-picture option.

Translate subtitles

Restriction

Yandex provides subtitles for videos on a number of hosting sites, including Coursera, VK, YouTube, Twitch, Vimeo, and 9GAG.

Yandex Browser supports subtitles for all videos that it can translate. To enable and configure subtitles:

  1. In the video, tap .

  2. To configure subtitles, tap  and select:

    • Subtitle language: Select the original language or translation. If the video already has subtitles, you can select the service's subtitles instead of Yandex ones.
    • Highlight words: The words that are currently being spoken are highlighted. The option is only available for Yandex subtitles in the original language.

Note

To look up the translation of a word in the subtitles, simply click it. The video will pause, and the translation of the word and phrase will appear in a pop-up window. To continue watching, click anywhere inside the video window.

Can’t turn on subtitles with video translation

  1. Tap Меню → → Yandex Translate.

  2. Enable "Translate" and "Subtitles" buttons on videos and "Subtitles" button on untranslated videos.

  3. In the video, enable and configure subtitles.

If you're watching a video in fullscreen mode or on top of other apps (picture-in-picture), subtitles aren't available. To enable and configure subtitles, return to normal mode. Then you can reopen the video in fullscreen or on top of apps.

How to enable untranslated subtitles

  1. Next to the translation icon, tap .

  2. Enable Subtitles.

  3. In the Subtitle language field, select the original language. If the platform has its own subtitles, you can also select them.

Video problems

Video lags

The sound is ahead of the video, or a black screen is displayed instead of the video.

Clear the cache and cookies. Check whether your browser cache is saved to a memory card.

Clearing the cache

  1. Tap Меню → .

  2. Tap Security & Privacy.

  3. Tap Clear data.

  4. Select Cache.

  5. Deselect all the other options (if you only want to delete the browser cache).

  6. Click Clear.

  7. Confirm deletion.

Clear cookies

  1. On the bottom panel, tap Меню → .

  2. Go to the Privacy & security section.

  3. Tap Clear data.

  4. Select Cookies.

  5. Deselect all other options (if you only want to delete cookies).

  6. Click Clear.

  7. Confirm deletion.

Low video quality

The quality of video playback usually depends on your web connection speed. If it's inexplicably low, try clearing the cache:

  1. Tap Меню → .

  2. Tap Security & Privacy.

  3. Tap Clear data.

  4. Select Cache.

  5. Deselect all the other options (if you only want to delete the browser cache).

  6. Click Clear.

  7. Confirm deletion.

I can't disable video autoplay on a website

When you go to certain sites, videos start playing automatically. It's not possible to disable this feature for websites in Yandex Browser.

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