Youtube Playback Quality

**Ritchiejoe8** · September 5th, 2014

Hello,

I have recently installed Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS on my laptop, when trying to watch video's on youtube the highest quality I can set is 360p, on windows it's 1080P?

**shantiq** · September 5th, 2014

Hi R playing youtube through a browser is a very frustrating experience on U
but it becomes really easy if you copy URL you open VLC >> CTRL+V >> enter
then 1080p is fine
Takes 15 seconds to do that and it feels like your own private movie

even better copy a list of URLs in a txt editor call it anything
drag in in VLC your own TV

**mc4man** · September 5th, 2014

Originally Posted by shantiq

Hi R playing youtube through a browser is a very frustrating experience on U
but it becomes really easy if you copy URL you open VLC >> CTRL+V >> enter
then 1080p is fine
Takes 15 seconds to do that and it feels like your own private movie

even better copy a list of URLs in a txt editor call it anything
drag in in VLC your own TV

shantiq -
just curious, what version of vlc are you using? I've found that 2.2+ & 3.0+ have issues with http/https for h.264. (.mp4/.mov), while 2.1.X is fine (except for vevo which I use smtube > mpv for

Ex. picking something at random right now from yt main page
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoB8t0B4jx4

edit:
Also this FF extensions works ok for most of yt, vevo & some "Official" music vids excepted - see screen (with vlc < 2.2/3.0

**Ritchiejoe8** · September 6th, 2014

Thank you both for the replies

**vasa1** · September 6th, 2014

Originally Posted by Ritchiejoe8

Hello,

I have recently installed Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS on my laptop, when trying to watch video's on youtube the highest quality I can set is 360p, on windows it's 1080P?
...

I could watch the sample YouTube video link that mc4man provided at the best quality (1080) available. The browser I used is Firefox, fully updated. My laptop doesn't have a GPU; it's from 2009 with integrated graphics.

When I click on the cog wheel and select the highest quality, the wheel rotates for a while and then I see "HD" as shown in the image.

I don't normally watch HD on my laptop. Things get a bit hot.

**andrew.46** · September 6th, 2014

Originally Posted by mc4man

I've found that 2.2+ & 3.0+ have issues with http/https for h.264. (.mp4/.mov), while 2.1.X is fine (except for vevo which I use smtube > mpv for

Ex. picking something at random right now from yt main page
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoB8t0B4jx4

Mind you the latest vlc from git had no trouble with this and the NASA vid you linked to from Launchpad.... Not sure which part of the logs would be useful to you to find the issue though?

**shantiq** · September 6th, 2014

hi guys well Mutant Spider Giant Dog plays a treat here in 2.1.5 Rincewind and thank you for the cinematic experience

But VLC can be temperamental; plays different things at different times on different versions of U : let us coin a phrase and call it "a moody blitch"

oh yes mc and mpv of course all you need is

mpv url

fast and great and forgot smtube that is great too to bypass Ubuntu Browsers

**mc4man** · September 8th, 2014

Originally Posted by andrew.46

Mind you the latest vlc from git had no trouble with this and the NASA vid you linked to from Launchpad.... Not sure which part of the logs would be useful to you to find the issue though?

It seems the issue is the vlc 2.2.x source that ubuntu is using , - 2.1.x, newer 2.2.x & 3.0-git are fine.
(Ubuntu has decided to go with 2.2.0pre.. in 14.10 even though vlc has yet to release it. Myself will not be using 14.10 but was trying that source in 14.04..