Videos with higher quality levels offer only up to 720p with YouTubeCenter

[Ranguvar]

Example video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdDEu_urLSU

With YouTubeCenter: Max quality level is 720p, "Stats for nerds" confirms it is 1280x720 resolution.

Without YouTubeCenter: 1080p and 1440p quality levels are selectable (as well as 144p and 480p), "Stats for nerds" confirms their higher resolution.

Edit: With further testing, it appears that disabling Dash playback casuses this issue. If the additional qualities do not work with non-Dash playback, can they still be made visible with Dash disabled when they are selected?

[quickhelp]

Feather Beta is what I've been using as a workaround for the time being. https://www.youtube.com/feather_beta

Tried with the video you provided and was able to select 1440p with DASH turned off. It did default to 480p though.

[YePpHa]

This is because that YouTube have limited the qualities available for non-DASH formats. So when DASH playback is enabled all qualities are available where when it's disabled a few are missing.

@quickhelp It might be that the quality was not available and therefore the player automatic defaulted to 480p.

[Ranguvar]

@YePpHa, is it possible then to display DASH formats without DASH enabled, and switch it on when they are selected?

I immensely prefer DASH off, but I'd rather have the higher quality on a few videos where it's necessary to keep it on.

[YePpHa]

That would require me to refresh the player, which will take a few seconds. And I would have to put some replacements into the available quality slots (the missing qualities for when DASH is disabled). I can try to experiment with it to see how well it would work.

[markreg]

I honestly feel that adding the individual video and audio stream links for the 1080p video would be very beneficial. People can merge them if they know how to then.

[YePpHa]

True, I will try to add those streams when I begin to work on the download feature again.

[Squall-Leonhart]

"This is because that YouTube have limited the qualities available for non-DASH formats. So when DASH playback is enabled all qualities are available where when it's disabled a few are missing."

There are still ways you can grab the high res content without using dash, you just need to give the finger to youtube api's and be a little creative.

http://ngemu.com/threads/what-happened-to-google.158859/reply?quote=2130025

[jtl999]

With Internet Download Manager you can download higher quality videos.

[YePpHa]

This is simply because Download Manager are using the DASH formats and they can merge the audio and the video track easily. Download Manager are most likely using third-party libraries to do this (probably ffmpeg or something like that), whereas YouTube Center can't use these third-party libraries because they're on separate platforms.

I am though trying to create a library which can do this, but it is still in a very, very, early state (and I haven't worked on it for some months now).

[markreg]

1080p doesn't show up in IDM either anymore.

@YePpHa How can I get the 1080p video and audio links from the console again?

[YePpHa]

@markreg just write ytcenter.video and it will output an object, which will contain every quality.

[xsoft]

This issue is there again.

Developer Version - Build #378 DASH: off

Video scuxovLtYuA is showed just in 360p and 720p. This video have 7 different formats (from 240 to 2k)