YouTube Video Resolution Severely Restricted.

[Tommygunn]

I came back on Monday, after a weekend away, only to find that my Firefox browser or YouTube no longer allows me the choice as to the resolution of video I wish to play.
For some reason it only offers me '360' or 'Auto' along with overly large graphics. I've seen mention of HTML 5, but I don't know about that sort of thing, and all I did was turn the computer on after a few days or so.

Any fixes?

Tom.

 

[jboydgolfer]

if you haven't yet, go to the top right of the Youtube screen, click on your Youtube icon, and select the gear picture which is youtube settings, go to Playback, and select "Always choose the best quality for my connection and player size", which is the top option. Or you COULD try, scrolling ALL the way to the bottom of the Youtube page, and select "try something new", see if running the new player helps.

 

[Tommygunn]

Yep, the first option has been done and, in fact, that is what it has always been on. However, no luck.

The second option I'd rather leave unless all other options are exhausted.

Tom.

 

[natr0n]

I believe its a windows xp issue. Only happens with html5. if you force flash player/or try another browser that uses flash you get all the resolutions.


here use this......

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-flash-html5/?src=search

 

[jboydgolfer]

the above may very well be correct, since im running FF, and have no issues on my x64 Win7. Are you on the old, or on the new player? right click on the Youtube video player screen, and see what it says.

 

[Tommygunn]

Natr0n,
That appears to have done the trick! Previous videos that I've watched, which were limited, now have all there resolutions back and the icons are a normal size.

Thanks,
Tom.

 

[RejZoR]

Go to Plugins settings (same tabbed menu as for Add-ons) and disable that OpenH.264 plugin crap from Cisco. I've had tons of peformance problems because of that thing since EVERYTHING ran in software mode on CPU, running less than smootly even on 4,4GHz quad core...

By disabling it, you redirect decoding of video to HW accelerated decoder.

 

[Tommygunn]

I'll give it a go.

Tom.