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jpaul said:
Even on android phiones - if you access YT via firefox as opposed to the lauded app, can't you block them, like on a pc
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FF on android has a few extensions available to it, UBlock Origin being one of them. So with that you can block adverts on android using the extension. Or you could use something like Newpipe, though that's not so good for syncing history as it doesn't log you in.
 
Yes FF mobile with ublock completely removes ads just liek on desktop. But it's faffy not being able to use the native app and its features, plus I actually like popup display and background play now lol for the sake of £1.22 a month.

Anyone noticed this on some videos yet? First time seeing it:


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Long as they switch to AV1 fully then the lower bitrate won't matter as AV1 is fundamentally better at lower bitrates than other codecs at higher bitrates. Currently my youtube is set to AV1 preferred, but 90% of videos still show as using VP9 in stats for nerds.

As for that,

1080P:
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1080P "premium":
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Which is impossible to visually gauge because I'm watching Regular Car reviews and he uses a poor quality 1080P action camera for most segments so the quality is not what you expect from a normal 1080P stream anyway so this feature on this video is basically pointless lol.
 
Actually just realised nird stat connection speed is something about how it appraises max internet bandwidth, to replenish buffer ?
so not actually avg video bitrate

that 52s video downloads in 1080p vp9 as
8.24 MB (8,640,512 bytes)
which is 1298Kbs
(12.1MB in avc1 => avg 1904kbs)

(unless it's downloading an adaptive - based on my internet - html5 stream)

( e: downloaders had been using https://addoncrop.com/v17/youtube-downloader/
which is now spyware, so, for a week now trying tampermonkey script option,
because youtube-dl is a bit more complicated from command line )
 
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mrk said:
Yes FF mobile with ublock completely removes ads just liek on desktop. But it's faffy not being able to use the native app and its features, plus I actually like popup display and background play now lol for the sake of £1.22 a month.

Anyone noticed this on some videos yet? First time seeing it:


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Yeah I’ve had it for a while. @Raymond Lin I’ve only seen it on videos that have a max res of 1080p and it’s not available on all videos.
 
I don't have premium, but the download tool for doctor who youtube will download both premium?(12.1MB file) and std (7.1MB) versions
both download/play @25 fps for me, not 30fps mrk reports, not sure why (so not matching my display refresh currently @59hz)

not sure if youtube has 60fps @ 1080p videos.
 
If the original videos were uploaded at 30fps (or 24/25 etc) then they will only play at those framerates. Your display being 60Hz has no bearing on on what framerate youtube will play at^^
 
yes its weird downloaded video shows in vlc 25fps so I think the utube (android?) app might be lying @30, as I only see one downloadable version. ?

I would choose the video that matched my screen refresh rate, or reset the screen refresh rate, to avoid juddering/frame drops, if utube allowed me to choose.
(e: ok mrk was giving 30fps for a lexus video - more generally - will android app set android refresh rate to match video?)

( yes I saw an example of 60fps https://www.youtube.com/@60FpsGoodness/videos - need a search filter to identify the good stuff elsewhere. )
 
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Another thing I have noticed (generally, not Premium related) is that the playback quality option from settings has gone, the default playback quality is auto and many times even though a 4K stream is available, the auto setting uses 360p or something low like that. I am on a 1Gig connection so there's no reason it should be this way and is a behaviour I've noticed youtube doing probably to reduce bandwidth consumption server side so if you want higher quality, you have to manually select it.

Example:

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On this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS-4xxO7jxM
 
What do you mean @mrk? Just clicked the link and it immediately played in Auto (4K) for me.

edit - for references purposes, premium account, safari, macos, isp community fibre.

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mrk said:
Another thing I have noticed (generally, not Premium related) is that the playback quality option from settings has gone, the default playback quality is auto and many times even though a 4K stream is available, the auto setting uses 360p or something low like that. I am on a 1Gig connection so there's no reason it should be this way and is a behaviour I've noticed youtube doing probably to reduce bandwidth consumption server side so if you want higher quality, you have to manually select it.

Example:



On this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS-4xxO7jxM
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YouTube has been doing this for about a year - I've long seen the "auto" resolution set to 480p even though, like you, I'm on a 1Gb connection.
 
The funny thing is, opening the same link on Edge it defaults to Auto 1440P, opening it in a Firefox incognito window it chooses 720P for auto.... #JustYouTubeThings
 
mrk said:
The funny thing is, opening the same link on Edge it defaults to Auto 1440P, opening it in a Firefox incognito window it chooses 720P for auto.... #JustYouTubeThings
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In incognito firefox, mine defaults to 720p in the default player, 1080p in the cinema player and 1440p in fullscreen. Monitor is 1440p so it makes sense.

I have found previously that the quality will also drop when I am hammering my GPU with a game or similar.

Logged in it's pretty much always 4K by default.
 
vp9 is being hardware decoded software decode will hurt cpus/gpus
... don't know when they will start using AV1 for high resolutions too. ? home laptop gpu doesn't do vp9 or av1 so forcing avc1 at higher res
 
Those struggling to pay for premium, just add your card details to your google account and use Gpay to complete the transaction when connected to a VPN.

This allows you to use your UK card to pay.
 
Just realised you can subscribe to channels using the VPN trick too. Though I don't know how to feel about it. One of my favourite channels has a £5 sub that I now pay 20p a month for but feel like I'm cheating them :o
 
Junglist said:
Just realised you can subscribe to channels using the VPN trick too. Though I don't know how to feel about it. One of my favourite channels has a £5 sub that I now pay 20p a month for but feel like I'm cheating them :o
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Never seen a paid channel before.

Which one is it? Something saucy I hope.
 
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