I use Youtube on deck in Firefox with youtube.com/tv in kiosk mode. Works really well, but I noticed even when I have a bigger screen connected I can only watch videos in up to 720p. It doesn’t let me select anything higher. Is that a YTTV thing or is there a problem in my setup?

  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
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    2 months ago

    I believe this can happen when YouTube doesn’t detect hardware playback capabilities right. It gets stuck in mp4 mode which is often limited to 720p.

    My Steam Deck will play 4k60 video just fine so this seems to be a problem specifically on your end. YouTube will let you play videos of higher resolution than your screen offers regardless of you device (something I use often to get decent 1080p video out of the compressed trash YouTube pushes, by selecting 1440p or 4k on my 1080 devices).

    Possible fixes I can think of:

    • Try disabling all addons (yes, including adblock) to see if an addon is causing this. Works fine for me with uBlock, but who knows
    • Try resetting your Firefox profile. Sometimes a weird setting can break browsers in spectacular ways.
    • You’re probably using Flatpak for Firefox. You may need to enable hardware acceleration in a tool like Flatseal for high performance video playback.
    • Russ@bitforged.spaceEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Try resetting your Firefox profile. Sometimes a weird setting can break browsers in spectacular ways.

      This was a big one for me, for the longest time I could not figure out why I couldn’t get YouTube to play videos over 1080p for me in Firefox on my PC, it ended up being some weird setting that I changed in about:config (I sadly cannot recall which one) a long time ago - but I’d always copied my Firefox profile with me so that bad setting stuck around.