No HD Youtube HTML5

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freefrog

No HD Youtube HTML5

Unread post by freefrog » 2015-10-12, 00:11

I'm using palemoon on manjara openrc,
all the html5 videos on youtube are 360p, no option for any higher quality,
in about:config there aren't any settings related to mp4,
what's the problem? thanks

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Re: No HD Youtube HTML5

Unread post by trava90 » 2015-10-12, 00:43

For starters, have you tried setting media.gstreamer.enable to true in about:config?

freefrog

Re: No HD Youtube HTML5

Unread post by freefrog » 2015-10-12, 01:25

i've enabled it but no change

Tharn

Re: No HD Youtube HTML5

Unread post by Tharn » 2015-10-12, 01:32

Got the various gstreamer packages (good, bad, ugly, ffmpeg) installed?

freefrog

Re: No HD Youtube HTML5

Unread post by freefrog » 2015-10-12, 01:46

i've installed gstreamer ffmped good and good plugin, and it works now,
thanks a lot :D

..., but the max quality is 720p, i still don't have 1080p ... even though the videos state in the title that there should be a 1080p version

Tharn

Re: No HD Youtube HTML5

Unread post by Tharn » 2015-10-12, 09:49

You don't get 1080p without MSE, which Palemoon does not support. You can either use Flash instead or install the ViewTube userscript, which has MPEG-DASH functionality. I've found that it can play some 1080p videos, but it's not completely bug-free.

freefrog

Re: No HD Youtube HTML5

Unread post by freefrog » 2015-10-12, 22:27

I don't know what MSE is, but thanks for the info, 720p is enough for now.

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