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alextrv / enhanced-h264ify

A Firefox/Chrome extension that blocks video and audio codecs you have chosen on YouTube
MIT License
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enable based on device #8

Open vogler opened 3 years ago

vogler commented 3 years ago

My 2015 MBP can only decode h264 in hardware so I want the extension to block VP9 there to avoid heat and fan noise. My tower PC has no problem with VP9 and there I want to use it for 4K. With h264, youtube only seems to offer up to 1080p. Chrome syncs whether the extension is enabled/disabled and I switch between devices where this should be different. Ideally it would detect the 'Video Acceleration Information' like shown in chrome://gpu, but being able to change it manually would be fine as well. Saving it in localStorage is probably fine.

Poopooracoocoo commented 2 years ago

A workaround you could use is to disable extension sync in Chrome's settings.

vogler commented 2 years ago

Not really an option since I want them synced. No longer an issue for me since I upgraded to a M1 MBA. Still relevant for mixed h264/VP9 hardware setups though.