Low resolution on videos from youtube. (2 Viewers)

[doskabouter]

Hm, feels a bit clunky.
In youtube-dl they download the 2 streams and merge those into one.
In theory that could also be done in onlinevideos, but it's quite a challenge to make that work (I have to include something like ffmpeg in the onlinevideos i guess)

 

[ajs]

In youtube-dl they download the 2 streams and merge those into one.

youtube-dl Documentation:
You can merge the video and audio of two formats into a single file using -f <video-format>+<audio-format> (requires ffmpeg or avconv installed), for example -f bestvideo+bestaudio will download the best video-only format, the best audio-only format and mux them together with ffmpeg/avconv.

but it's quite a challenge to make that work

Step1 Download Video stream
Step 2 Download Audio stream
Step 3 Merge
or
Simple run youtube-dl - And let him do all the necessary work.

 

[Sebastiii]

@Sebastiii , is it possible to play 2 urls in parallel, video and audio?

hmmm don't know

 

[doskabouter]

There is only one parameter in the IPlayer.play method to specify an url, so at the very least that needs to be extended

 

[Juppe]

Just wondering if anything is happening with this?

 

[doskabouter]

Alas no, nothing like that on the roadmap

 

[ajs]

In youtube-dl they download the 2 streams and merge those into one.

Yes i can give command line for youtube-dl, ffmpeg already in MP ...

 

[bta489]

I'm digging this old thread up, because I'm having the exaxct same issue now. For some time now the prompt to select the video quality for YouTube is gone and all videos are played with 640x480 resolution without any dialog to select the quality. I used to be able to select either 720p or VGA. Is that 'normal', due to YouTube-API-shenanigans or is there something wrong on my end? I tried fiddling with the few setting the site-plugin offers that to me look related to this (namely preferred format and video quality), but with no difference in outcome. I just updated from MP1.33 (x64) to 1.34 (x64) and no difference there as well.

 

[doskabouter]

Do you have an example for this, so I can investigate?

 

[bta489]

I set my log level to debug and played a random YouTube video (This one: [LINK]). Here is the OnlineVideos.log-file. If you need any other logs or additional info please let me know.

Thank you for looking into this.