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erkserkserks / h264ify-firefox

A Firefox extension that makes YouTube stream H.264 videos instead of VP8/VP9 videos
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h264ify stopped working on FireFox #22

Open OutsideFate opened 6 months ago

OutsideFate commented 6 months ago

FireFox 123.0.1 (64-bit), the plug-in has stopped functioning recently, and the H264 override in another plug-in (Enhancer for YouTube) also fails. It looks like a back-end YouTube update has borked whatever method both plug-ins used to override the default V9 encoder.

My laptop, while nowhere near bad, always overheats and shuts down while playing YouTube videos specifically unless I crank the fan speed to maximum without the plugin.

Sadly, while this thing is pretty powerful for a laptop, it doesn't properly support the VP8/VP9 video codec and will consistently spike CPU temperatures to the point my laptop automatically shuts down. This isn't a problem with any other video player, online or offline.

My specs are:

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8750H CPU @ 2.20GHz 2.20 GHz

RAM: 16 GB DDR5

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (12120 MB memory, 4018 MB VRAM, 8102 MB Shared Memory)

eugenesan commented 6 months ago

I can confirm. It stopped working on Firefox 123/124 and Chrome 123.

vitaly-zdanevich commented 3 months ago

Any alternatives?

vitaly-zdanevich commented 3 months ago

Looks like this is an alternative solution https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-addon