Stored on the phone, the video took only around 25mb space.Ĥ- When a user plays the video, it is decrypted in real time. Video that we downloaded actually consumed around 40MB data. Has several benefits, the one obvious benefit is that people can'tĬopy-paste the video and share it indiscriminately.
Video is downloaded, not only it is broken into parts but is alsoĬonverted to EXO format, compressed and encrypted in real time. YouTube app for Android can make sense of these chunks and join themģ- We also feel there is real-time encryption going on here. This is apparentlyĪ file format used for system files and while we managed to copy theseĮXO files onto a computer, it can be apparently played only throughĢ- When you request a download for an offline video in the YouTubeĪpp, the video is downloaded in chunks. From the xda-developers forum post,ġ- Google is using EXO file format to save videos. They are nothing but the encrypted exo files that can only be opened through the Youtube App. exo file under Internal Storage/Android/data/ directory. Even if you have one offline video stored in your phone you can find more than one. exo file since it is encrypted and the video file is split into chunks of.
