[solved] No HD youtube in Firefox

Lockheed · 2014-10-15 21:23:05

Since months, FireFox will only display up to 480p video quality on youtube. If I go to the very same video in Chrome or another browser, I can see HD options to choose from.

Is it not possible to have HD youtube in FF anymore?

Last edited by Lockheed (2014-10-16 10:43:01)

drcouzelis · 2014-10-16 00:48:47

Sure, it's possible.

How are you viewing videos? (Flash or Webm?)

Lockheed · 2014-10-16 06:50:47

It's mostly HTML5. It is hard to find a HF flash video on youtube these days.

Torignit · 2014-10-16 08:36:20

If you like, I have a convoluted work-around that I originally used to keep Flash from crashing my computer; FlashGot can usually detect and display options for downloading various media files in its dropdown menu, even when I have all flash/javascript blocked on a page. You can then download the whole .mp4 (or whichever) file and view it in VLC or other media player.
You mention the difficult of finding the video quality you want in flash, but I see the HD file become available on nearly every video.

Edit: (Almost forgot) FlashGot is Firefox add-on that is normally for batch downloads.

Last edited by Torignit (2014-10-16 08:38:27)

Lockheed · 2014-10-16 08:38:03

Then I could just as well use Chrome, because all youtube HD videos work just fine in it. So I am looking for a solution to this problem, because I already have a workaround (using Chrome).

Gusar · 2014-10-16 08:54:25

Firefox's MSE (Media Source Extensions) support isn't complete, so DASH videos don't work yet. Non-DASH videos go to 720p though, you should get at least that. But for 1080p you need to use Firefox Nightly and set some options in about:config and even then it might be very buggy.

Lockheed · 2014-10-16 08:56:54

Yes, but as you said, I don't even get 720p.

Gusar · 2014-10-16 10:22:16

Your posts are seriously lacking in information. Do you have all gstreamer plugins that are optdepends of Firefox installed? Link to a video that should have 720p but doesn't? Does it have 720p in Flash? If not, of course it won't be there in HTML5 either. What does youtube.com/html5 say? MSE & H.264 not being available is ok, but everything else should be.

Lockheed · 2014-10-16 10:36:10

Gusar wrote:

Your posts are seriously lacking in information. Do you have all gstreamer plugins that are optdepends of Firefox installed? Link to a video that should have 720p but doesn't? Does it have 720p in Flash? If not, of course it won't be there in HTML5 either.

The information about quality availability is included in the first post. Those videos have 720p.

But it looks like the problem was solved by installing gst-libav which I was missing. Thanks!

Last edited by Lockheed (2014-10-16 10:42:44)

Gusar · 2014-10-16 10:53:59

Lockheed wrote:

then there still is some problem, because that's what I get is:

That one is my bad, MSE needs to be explicitly enabled in about:config (the media.mediasource.enabled option), this will make youtube report "MSE & WebM VP9" as available.

CentaurFire · 2015-08-10 22:51:30

run "pacman -Qii firefox"

Check optional dependencies.

Make sure gst-plugins-good gst-libav are installed.

Trilby · 2015-08-10 23:01:06

CentaurFire, please do not necrobump old posts - especially solved ones.

Closed.

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