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Improve blurry YouTube videos by enforcing default minimum of 1440p (QHD) #1051

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cvan opened this issue Apr 2, 2019 · 1 comment
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Improve blurry YouTube videos by enforcing default minimum of 1440p (QHD) #1051

cvan opened this issue Apr 2, 2019 · 1 comment
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cvan commented Apr 2, 2019

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Steps to Reproduce

  1. Load a YouTube video - especially with the 360 ones it's noticeable.
  2. Notice the blurry quality.
  3. The user has to know to press the Settings button, then the Quality button, then select a reasonable quality, and then the quality is good enough.

Current Behavior

The default playback quality of YouTube's in FxR are unreasonably poor.

Expected Behavior

The default playback quality of YouTube's in FxR are of a fair quality (i.e., 1440p).

Context

Discussed in @MortimerGoro's PR #1047: #1047 (review)
@cvan cvan added this to the v1.1.4 milestone Apr 2, 2019
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automatically upgrade default YouTube video playback quality to HD 14…
d892f62 
…40p (fixes issue #1051); hide `Full screen is unavailable` message (fixes issue #1056)

- or via `vq=`/`query=` query-string parameter in URLs for youtube.com and youtube-nocookie.com
cvan added a commit that referenced this issue Apr 6, 2019
@cvan
automatically upgrade default YouTube video playback quality to HD 14…
a94be9b 
…40p (fixes issue #1051); hide `Full screen is unavailable` message (fixes issue #1056)

- or via `vq=`/`query=` query-string parameter in URLs for youtube.com and youtube-nocookie.com
cvan added a commit that referenced this issue Apr 6, 2019
@cvan
automatically upgrade default YouTube video playback quality to HD 14…
7debaaf 
…40p (fixes issue #1051); hide `Full screen is unavailable` message (fixes issue #1056)

- or via `vq=`/`query=` query-string parameter in URLs for youtube.com and youtube-nocookie.com
bluemarvin pushed a commit that referenced this issue Apr 11, 2019
@cvan @bluemarvin
automatically upgrade default YouTube video playback quality to HD 14…
e4efeda 
…40p (fixes issue #1051); hide `Full screen is unavailable` message (fixes issue #1056)

- or via `vq=`/`query=` query-string parameter in URLs for youtube.com and youtube-nocookie.com
MortimerGoro pushed a commit that referenced this issue Apr 11, 2019
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improve default playback quality of YouTube videos to 1440p (or vq=…
a125258 
…, `quality=` query-string parameter) (fixes issue #1051) (#1052)

* tidy up YouTube WebCompat WebExtension (follow up to PR #1047)

* automatically upgrade default YouTube video playback quality to HD 1440p (fixes issue #1051); hide `Full screen is unavailable` message (fixes issue #1056)

- or via `vq=`/`query=` query-string parameter in URLs for youtube.com and youtube-nocookie.com

* Fix SyntaxError

* Update to wait until player has resolutions available
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cvan commented Apr 12, 2019

done in PR #1052

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@cvan cvan modified the milestones: v1.1.4, v1.1.3 Apr 15, 2019
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