No 240p FLV, 480p FLV, 1080p MP4

[bo3rnd]

Hi,

I just saw that there was an update for clicktoflash on 06.11.2013 with these notes: "Updated the YouTube killer with support for 480p FLV, 1080p MP4, and 1440p MP4 videos"

But I can only select 360p MP4 and 720p MP4. What happened with the other formats?

thanks

[hoyois]

Sadly, YouTube took down 480p, 1080p, and 1440p within a week of the last update...

240p, on the other hand, still is and has always been there, but you need a QuickTime plug-in that can decode FLV.

[hoyois]

On a positive note, there's active work being done to enable DASH playback in Safari: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123378. There's already a patch so I'm hopeful this will make it to the WebKit nightlies very soon, and when it does I'll try to bring back 1080p/1440p HTML5 playback.

[monica66]

I always use FLV format to upload my GoPro MP4 videos to Youtube with help of Brorsoft Video Converter. You can have a try to adjust the video resolution.

[andresj-io]

Hi, I'd like to know if there has been any update on this subject, thanks

[hoyois]

@andres21aj Nope, still no support for DASH in the nightly builds.

[LordHDL]

What about 480p mp4? It seems the highest I get is 360p for 480p videos.

[hoyois]

480p mp4 does not exist. 480p flv used to exist, but even that doesn't exist anymore — only DASH now.

Of course, DASH playback is now possible in Safari 8, but implementing playback is a nightmare because video decoding must be done manually. If someone knows of an open-source HTML5 player that supports YouTube DASH, let me know.

[ghost]

libdash/bitdash or dash.js? Honestly I don't have any clue about this but I just love your extension and I'd like to see 1080p support.

[hoyois]

I've tried dash.js but it always produces obscure errors on YouTube's manifests. Frustratingly, Safari 8 can directly play the 1080p MP4 files, but I don't know a reliable way to sync the audio and the video without MSE. A MediaController makes the audio lag behind by half a second.

[hoyois]

@chrisaljoudi None of the tracks are problematic. It's only the fact that two separate files must play in sync which is the problem.

[saboch]

@hoyois there is an open source HTML5 player called video.js that seems fairly active and has plugin support for dash.js and dash.as on their github page, this all isn't really my forte but the results looked promising! http://blog.videojs.com/post/92536319027/dash-everywhere-ish-hack-project#disqus_thread

[asoksevil]

Any new updates? AFAIK 360p and 720p are the only options available.

[hoyois]

Nope, nothing new. It's probably best not to expect anything. At least we can be grateful that the 720p video is still there, now that all main browsers support MSE.

[luizfonseca]

Guys, what about this? https://github.com/Dash-Industry-Forum/dash.js/tree/v1.2.0/contrib/videojs

[bretello]

Any news on this?