[arch-general] HD Videos
Helo everyone, since some weeks I have a new laptop. Until now everything seemed to work fine. But I can't get youtube to play videos better than 360p, which s quite ugly. Does anyone have a hint on this? I installed flasplayer from adobe and gst-plugins-base/bad/ugly. Best, Heiko
To Heiko, What are your laptop specs? Regards, Mark On 10/09/2014 10:47 AM, Heiko Becker wrote:
Helo everyone,
since some weeks I have a new laptop. Until now everything seemed to work fine. But I can't get youtube to play videos better than 360p, which s quite ugly. Does anyone have a hint on this? I installed flasplayer from adobe and gst-plugins-base/bad/ugly.
Best,
Heiko
i7 Processor, 16GB RAM, nVidia GTX 850M On 10/09/2014 04:54 PM, Mark Lee wrote:
To Heiko,
What are your laptop specs?
Regards, Mark
On 10/09/2014 10:47 AM, Heiko Becker wrote:
Helo everyone,
since some weeks I have a new laptop. Until now everything seemed to work fine. But I can't get youtube to play videos better than 360p, which s quite ugly. Does anyone have a hint on this? I installed flasplayer from adobe and gst-plugins-base/bad/ugly.
Best,
Heiko
Has your bandwidth changed (downward) recently? If I'm not mistaken, I believe Google represents available quality at least partially based on what they see as feasible for your connection [to them]. Chris Tonkinson 610.425.7807 GPG Key Fingerprint: 9120 D63D BB2E 8370 7023 C002 7145 1F95 18B3 E7A2 "Lead, follow, or get out of the way." -Thomas Paine On 10/09/2014 11:05 AM, Heiko Becker wrote:
i7 Processor, 16GB RAM, nVidia GTX 850M
On 10/09/2014 04:54 PM, Mark Lee wrote:
To Heiko,
What are your laptop specs?
Regards, Mark
On 10/09/2014 10:47 AM, Heiko Becker wrote:
Helo everyone,
since some weeks I have a new laptop. Until now everything seemed to work fine. But I can't get youtube to play videos better than 360p, which s quite ugly. Does anyone have a hint on this? I installed flasplayer from adobe and gst-plugins-base/bad/ugly.
Best,
Heiko
On 09/10/14 16:05, Heiko Becker wrote:
i7 Processor, 16GB RAM, nVidia GTX 850M
An under-powered laptop, clearly.. How do you try to play the video over 360p and what happens? -- SP
Replying to both: 1. My bandwidth did not change. On Windows 8.1 (on the same Laptop :D) I am able to watch the videos in 1080p 2. I open the youtube video and usually I then try to switch using the bottom buttons in the player, but there is only the option for 360p and of course "automatic". Best, Heiko
Are you using the flash player or html5 player on youtube? What browser? -- James On 10/09/2014 04:13 PM, Heiko Becker wrote:
Replying to both:
1. My bandwidth did not change. On Windows 8.1 (on the same Laptop :D) I am able to watch the videos in 1080p
2. I open the youtube video and usually I then try to switch using the bottom buttons in the player, but there is only the option for 360p and of course "automatic".
Best,
Heiko
I use firefox and it should be the flash player version. On 10/09/2014 05:17 PM, James Bulmer wrote:
Are you using the flash player or html5 player on youtube?
What browser?
-- James
On 10/09/2014 04:13 PM, Heiko Becker wrote:
Replying to both:
1. My bandwidth did not change. On Windows 8.1 (on the same Laptop :D) I am able to watch the videos in 1080p
2. I open the youtube video and usually I then try to switch using the bottom buttons in the player, but there is only the option for 360p and of course "automatic".
Best,
Heiko
Ok correction: Im using the html5 player. It says that it lacks support for: H.264, Media Source Extensions, MSE and WebM VP9 On 10/09/2014 05:17 PM, James Bulmer wrote:
Are you using the flash player or html5 player on youtube?
What browser?
-- James
On 10/09/2014 04:13 PM, Heiko Becker wrote:
Replying to both:
1. My bandwidth did not change. On Windows 8.1 (on the same Laptop :D) I am able to watch the videos in 1080p
2. I open the youtube video and usually I then try to switch using the bottom buttons in the player, but there is only the option for 360p and of course "automatic".
Best,
Heiko
On Thursday, October 09, 2014 05:20:40 PM Heiko Becker wrote:
Ok correction: Im using the html5 player. It says that it lacks support for:
H.264, Media Source Extensions, MSE and WebM VP9
I'm almost positive that HQ videos use H.264, so not having that is causing your problems. Firefox does support H.264, you just need to have the correct packages. According to the firefox package you need to have "gst-libav" and "gst-plugins-good". If you have those installed it should solve your problem.
On 09/10/14 16:13, Heiko Becker wrote:
2. I open the youtube video and usually I then try to switch using the bottom buttons in the player, but there is only the option for 360p and of course "automatic".
Have you installed the appropriate drivers for your graphics card? [^1] I am wondering if flash detects no acceleration. Also, have you tried HD playback either with flash-less browser or a file with vlc? [1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA -- SP
On 10/09/2014 05:21 PM, SP wrote:
Have you installed the appropriate drivers for your graphics card? [^1]
I am wondering if flash detects no acceleration. Also, have you tried HD playback either with flash-less browser or a file with vlc?
Of course I did install xf86-video-nouveau
On 10/09, Heiko Becker wrote:
On 10/09/2014 05:21 PM, SP wrote:
Have you installed the appropriate drivers for your graphics card? [^1]
I am wondering if flash detects no acceleration. Also, have you tried HD playback either with flash-less browser or a file with vlc?
Of course I did install xf86-video-nouveau
I would recommend using the proprietary driver for newer graphics cards. It might fix your problems. Hong
Removal of the HTML5 player fixed my problem. But just for curiosity, what plugins/ packages do I need for H.264 support? I will install the proprietary driver then soon (TM) ^^ Best, Heiko
Am 09.10.2014 um 17:29 schrieb Heiko Becker:
Removal of the HTML5 player fixed my problem. But just for curiosity, what plugins/ packages do I need for H.264 support?
I will install the proprietary driver then soon (TM) ^^
Best,
Heiko You'll need at least gst-libav and gst-plugins-good for h.264.
MSE and "MSE & WebM VP9" can be enabled in about:config (media.mediasource.enabled) http://www.ghacks.net/2014/05/10/enable-media-source-extensions-firefox/
On 10/09/2014 05:33 PM, ProgAndy wrote:
You'll need at least gst-libav and gst-plugins-good for h.264.
MSE and "MSE & WebM VP9" can be enabled in about:config (media.mediasource.enabled) http://www.ghacks.net/2014/05/10/enable-media-source-extensions-firefox/
Ok thanks.
I think you need gst-libav https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/gst-libav/ gst-plugins-good https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/gst-plugins-good/ for the h.264 playback -- James On 10/09/2014 04:31 PM, Hong Shick Pak wrote:
On 10/09, Heiko Becker wrote:
On 10/09/2014 05:21 PM, SP wrote:
Have you installed the appropriate drivers for your graphics card? [^1]
I am wondering if flash detects no acceleration. Also, have you tried HD playback either with flash-less browser or a file with vlc?
Of course I did install xf86-video-nouveau I would recommend using the proprietary driver for newer graphics cards. It might fix your problems.
Hong
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Chris Tonkinson
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Heiko Becker
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Hong Shick Pak
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James Bulmer
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Kevin Ott
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Mark Lee
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ProgAndy
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SP