Youtube Frames Question

[Jacobs87]

Hi guys. Hoping someone can help me please.

I was just wondering if VLC can play Youtube videos that (i believe) have been encoded in 60 fps AT 60 fps via VLC? I have right clicked on the Youtube video and on Stats for Nerds it says @60 after the Resolution dimensions so i believe it is at 60 fps. On VLC in the Media information it says it is playing at 30.

Is there a setting i need to toggle? Bit of a newbie so please bear with me!

Many thanks

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

VLC always play at the full rate. What shows in the infos is what comes from the file meta-data; it does not have to be true but it usually is.

[Jacobs87]

Ah ok. So even if it does show 30 fps in the VLC info it will be 60 fps?

[Jacobs87]

Apologies for the double post but i thought it would be best to show you which video i wish to play via VLC at 60fps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8zFsH1 ... k&index=20

Basically at 720 quality (which i have it set to in VLC) it plays at that quality but the framerate shows as 29.99997 on the Media Info

Is this normal then?

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

VLC will play all frames unless the computer is too slow. That's not to say that the file is or isn't 60 f/s per se.

In this specific case, the full HD version is 60 f/s and shows as such in VLC. Maybe the 720 version is down-sampled by YouTube?

[Jacobs87]

It plays 60 fps on the 720 in Youtube. I have a 3.5Ghz i7-3770k processor and 16GB DDR3 ram so my PC is more than capable.

[Jacobs87]

Are there any settings I can configure to try to get the framerate to 60 on VLC? I have got it to work using Potplayer but I would love to get it working on VLC as its my preference.

[Pinoco]

I would like to follow up this question, even though it's almost 5 years old. This seems to be the only thread regarding this topic.

As an example video, I use this 60 fps scroll test demo, which btw is really great to check if you got smooth playback:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXzO7p6sSyY

Playing this video through VLC only results in 30 FPS playback:


Is there any way to playback youtube videos in 60 FPS, or will it always switch to 30 FPS?

[mederi]

https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.ph ... 87#p514419

22 mp4 1280x720 720p 649k , avc1.64001F, 30fps, mp4a.40.2 (44100Hz) (best)

[Hitchhiker]

https://www.techwalla.com/articles/how- ... ate-in-vlc

[Pinoco]

Thank you both for the hint! So I first tried out Hitchhiker's linked method, and the youtube video still played back in 720p@30FPS, which is also listed in "Codec Information".

Then I tried mederi's method of using the youtube-dl.bat posted here:
https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.ph ... 80#p495615

And it works! Though I did not use this source, as it's 30 FPS:

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22 mp4 1280x720 720p 649k , avc1.64001F, 30fps, mp4a.40.2 (44100Hz) (best)

But instead, those 2 work for 720p@60FPS:

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302 webm 1280x720 720p60 832k , webm_dash container, vp9@ 832k , 60fps, video only, 4.46MiB

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298 mp4 1280x720 720p60 1492k , mp4_dash container, avc1.4d402 0@1492k, 60fps, video only, 8.01MiB

The playback is super smooth, I only noticed some very minor microstutters every few seconds. It's much better than youtube on firefox or chrome.
Of course since it's video only, you also have to use the audio source, then use both URLs in Network Stream with the "play another media synchronously" option.

[mederi]

Of course since it's video only, you also have to use the audio source, then use both URLs in Network Stream with the "play another media synchronously" option.

The updated batch script (https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.ph ... 87#p514611) can do it for you automatically (298+140).

[Pinoco]

Oh that's awesome, it works great! Thanks mederi for the batch script.