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I was having issues with YouTube video not looking right under Windows 7 - the video always had a lot of stairstep jaggedness. So I uninstalled and reinstalled Adobe Flash.
While it did seem to cure the issue I was having, now none of the Youtube videos have a 1080p option, on videos I know should. Only 720p.
Any insights as to what happened and how to fix it?
Running Firefox under Win 7 Home Premium.
Thanks.
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Not only you, everybody with Firefox forced to play on Html5 player, you can check with right click on Player
and for some reason limit to 720p, maybe its bug and going to be fix in the future
Add Firefox plugin to force YouTube to play videos using Flash Player: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-flash-player
If you want to automatically play with 1080p in Flash Player add: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-hd-plusLast edited by roma_turok; 18th Feb 2015 at 01:54.
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This no 1080p thing on the Win7 machine wasn't an issue until I reinstalled Flash. I can watch 1080p on my XP machine via Firefox no problem.Originally Posted by roma_turok
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Excellent - thanks for the tip.Originally Posted by roma_turok
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Checked in XP OS on VirtualBox, Firefox not forced to play on Html5 playerOriginally Posted by brassplyer
but on my 2 Win7 computers and on Win7 VirtualBox forced.
So it's definitely issue right now on Win7 OS
As I said you can right click on player to see its HTML5 player:
Last edited by roma_turok; 18th Feb 2015 at 11:19.
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Its the same on Windows 8.1. Youtube defaults to HTML5 on Firefox. I had to install Youbube Flash Player addon to force Flash. HTML5 lacks some of the resolutions. Most of the videos are 360p and 720p or just 360p. Well, at least it still uses H.264 codec even on HTML5 player so playback is hardware accelerated.
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Just get Firefox with MSE (currently Beta) and it should work fine.
Edited to add: Oops, not quite it seems! What a mess at Mozilla!
If they do not fix this soon I will permanently stop using Firefox and move on to Chrome.
Hopefully YouTube cuts the flash crap soon otherwise we will have folks using flash for another 65+ years!
Last edited by newpball; 18th Feb 2015 at 13:12.
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They should go permanently go to VP9 soon, much better quality/bandwidth ratio!Originally Posted by Detmek
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Still getting 1080P with flash on Youtube here.
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I also with Firefox plugin: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-flash-playerOriginally Posted by TreeTops
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HTML5 player on youtube should give you more options (not only 360p and 720p) on the newest Firefox, if you:
1. Type about:config and hit enter.
2. Confirm you will be careful.
3. Find preference 'media.mediasource.enabled'.
4. Set its value to True.
You might need to create a new preference as well:
1. Type about:config and hit enter.
2. Confirm you will be careful.
3. Right-click and select New > Boolean.
4. Name the preference 'media.mediasource.ignore_codecs'.
5. Set its value to True.
Then check it up: https://www.youtube.com/html5
Video DownloadHelper doesn't seem to find all of them, but for example Complete Youtube Saver (uses ffmpeg plugin for DASH - you can download it via Options) works OK.
The link is: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/complete-youtube-saver/ , but use (as stated there) the newest version from here:
https://cys.mantishub.com/view.php?id=31
Go to 'Menu Actions' and 'Detailed Menu' in its options and (un)check qualities and formats you want.
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