VLC playing 1080 HD YouTube videos at 640
Posted: 11 Dec 2020 16:08
YouTube has recently undergone a lot of redesign craziness, which means I'm looking for a new way to access my playlists.
Several have thousands of vids, which are impossible to load with the new laggy, oversized design that causes Firefox to send up constant pop-up messages about browser slowdown that never occurred with the old, compact design. Load More All has also depreciated. I happen to have backups of all my playlists from when you could still get the old style to load without giving you a json.txt. And worse, if you try to Save Page As on the new design, you only get to save the first 100 videos, even if you saved it with everything (very slowly) loaded.
Enter VLC's lua plugin for playlists. Which is working fine and dandy to give me a quick-loading, up-to-date list of all my vids.
However, VLC has a big problem right now with YouTube and it's 1080 HD. I've played videos I know for a fact are 1080 (ones I've made myself, even) and they're a blurry mess of 640.
In Tools > Media Information > Codec, you can see what VLC is identifying the video as. I've already changed the VLC settings to play at 1080. I've also attempted highest. I've even attempted 720 just to see if I can get 1080 videos to stop playing at 640. I've just looked at a real 720 video and VLC is able to play it at full quality.
Is this related to the separate audio stream needing to be muxed into 1080 vids that caused a lot of downloaders to stop offering the feature (Youtube-DLG is capable of muxing it)? Did VLC stop offering the ability to play 1080 because of the audio muxing or is it a situation with the update?
If it's an update situation, YouTube playlist refugees who know about VLC's hidden capabilities really would appreciate the 1080 fix. It's worth the effort and very much needed now.
Several have thousands of vids, which are impossible to load with the new laggy, oversized design that causes Firefox to send up constant pop-up messages about browser slowdown that never occurred with the old, compact design. Load More All has also depreciated. I happen to have backups of all my playlists from when you could still get the old style to load without giving you a json.txt. And worse, if you try to Save Page As on the new design, you only get to save the first 100 videos, even if you saved it with everything (very slowly) loaded.
Enter VLC's lua plugin for playlists. Which is working fine and dandy to give me a quick-loading, up-to-date list of all my vids.
However, VLC has a big problem right now with YouTube and it's 1080 HD. I've played videos I know for a fact are 1080 (ones I've made myself, even) and they're a blurry mess of 640.
In Tools > Media Information > Codec, you can see what VLC is identifying the video as. I've already changed the VLC settings to play at 1080. I've also attempted highest. I've even attempted 720 just to see if I can get 1080 videos to stop playing at 640. I've just looked at a real 720 video and VLC is able to play it at full quality.
Is this related to the separate audio stream needing to be muxed into 1080 vids that caused a lot of downloaders to stop offering the feature (Youtube-DLG is capable of muxing it)? Did VLC stop offering the ability to play 1080 because of the audio muxing or is it a situation with the update?
If it's an update situation, YouTube playlist refugees who know about VLC's hidden capabilities really would appreciate the 1080 fix. It's worth the effort and very much needed now.
