Some Firefox users noticed playback issues on YouTube for several months. These affected high resolution videos only, from 1080p and up. To make matters worse, no clear pattern could be identified.
Some videos played fine, others would stop abruptly when they ran out of buffer.
Affected users might have blamed Firefox for the issue. Some may even have switched to a Chromium-based browser, as these worked without any issue.
I’ve been having issues with YouTube on Firefox for ages, not these issues, different ones. I haven’t bothered to test if it’s only Firefox that has the problem because I’m not using Firefox for a seamless experience, I’m using because why the fuck would I use anything else on Linux? I won’t put google or ms into a Linux environment, even if I don’t really care about privacy or whatever, it just feels like mixing oil and water.
Might use another browser like brave or whatever foss solutions are out there, but I’d be surprised if anything like that is better than Firefox.
When I have issues, I use user agent switcher and go windows with chrome and the problems magically disappear. Google is such shit.
I happens to me but all i thought was that YouTube was bad not Firefox.
It is.
“This problem is triggered by bad muxed VP9 bytestream served by Youtube, so it’s not a regression on our side, this issue can also be reproduced on old versions Firefox”.
I resorted to having Chrome for work things, Opera for Youtube and Firefox for the good stuff. Divide and conquer, I guess.
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How can I use those while keeping my watch history automatically sync’d between devices?
Can’t speak for invidious, but grayjay’s youtube plugin has a “Provide Youtube Activity” option in it’s settings to keep history synced.
you can use a native client that incorporates invidious servers like pipe-viewer or minitube to reduce overhead and browser dependence
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“nasty license” ok dude.
What’s wrong with having some principles and logic ?
The source is available and open for anyone to view.
The license protects the product while allowing anyone who wants to poke through the code.
Isn’t the greyjay developer team funded by Louis Rossman
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Grayjay is funded by FUTO, and Louis works for FUTO.
No. Louis works for greyjay. There is some billionaire behind it all.
You know the billionares name, it would be a good idea to see who the people are behind the funding
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If someone posts their source code publicly, it’s open source. It’s unreasonable to ask them to review and maintain every PR sent their way. If they want to work on it by themselves, that’s fine. If you want to fork it and make changes yourself, you can. Literally the only qualification for something to be open source is that the source is open.
It’s also unreasonable to be upset if they tell you you’re not allowed to take their work and re-sell it for your own profit. That would be like saying that artists are in the wrong for being upset that all those AI companies used their work to train their bots without asking. “Why would they prevent the creation of nonfree applications that use their work?!” I assume that’s not your position, right?
But as you said, NewPipe is also copyleft, and it seems like you don’t have a problem with that. So I don’t really understand what your issue is with Grayjay/FUTO. It’s reasonable to be concerned about where their funding comes from, but you haven’t mentioned that. You say they have “marketing lies”, but haven’t pointed to any.
It’s perfectly fine for there to be multiple open source solutions to the same problem, and you’re allowed to have a favorite, but that doesn’t warrant dragging the others’ names through the mud for no reason.
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You can’t just redefine an established term because it’s inconvenient to your argument.
Agreed, which is why you can’t expect to enforce the definition you like on everyone. The only thing about “open source” that we agree on is that the “source” is “open”.
I’m realizing you’re working with outdated information. Take a look at the license again, it’s been updated.
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The youtube ui is so slow I don’t use it, even back when I was using chrome. Thanks invidious!
My videos play fine but my side bar is completely gone. No recommended videos, no similar videos, no playlist. Works fine on my other PC.
It’s underneath on mine, with the contents in the sidebar. Looks shite.
If it doesn’t load quickly or properly, I just don’t watch it, which ultimately hurts Google.
@[email protected] @[email protected] do you use an adblocker?
this is frustating i had to use open with potplayer extension most of times.
Badly muxed VP9 stream? Is that where they tried to stuff ads into it?
I solved a lot of performance issues I had with yt playback by disabling Ambient Mode (it’s hidden under cog menu in the player). No clue why, but it was causing massve CPU usage.
Yeah. I hate ambient mode. Kills battery life on all systems.
It’s also really ugly and distracting.
I’m not sure why, but ambient mode also introduces a lot of color banding for me. I find it odd because it doesn’t occur in similar dark-gradient scenes while gaming, just YouTube.
My guess is that it’s supposed to look good if you have HDR enabled (which gives you 10 bits per color channel, although even with HDR, the desktop UI still renders in 8 bits per channel).
But still, it looks terrible for most people, and is a complete waste of resources. Because of the horrible banding, I initially thought something was wrong with my monitor. I don’t understand why they added this feature.
No such problems with yt-dlp + mpv. And still no injected ads.
I have had the same issue for at least a month now. I use YouTube Premium, the fuck am I paying for?
You’re paying them to sell your data and to better advertise to you.
You’re posting for your inability to download ublock.
I already have an uBlock dude, it’s just I like to support content creators on YouTube by having Premium.
Support them directly instead of whatever peanuts google decides to graciously give them.
That’s a lot of effort, given how many people I am subscribed to. And I wouldn’t say that it’ “peanuts”, after all they redistribute 55% of YouTube Premium earnings, that’s a lot more than what other similar subscriptions give.
Would you support that kind of business model if you were at the other end, knowing full well you could be earning more? Then again, this is an age-old question…
For your experience to only be degraded a little.
For an slightly better but still degraded experience they want you on Google Chrome. But remember please use 360p or lower so their poor servers don’t have to work so hard, they even help you do this by default on mobile!
I also pay for YouTube, and I keep chrome around for watching it, and for the Google apps
I stopped watching on their website due to this. It’s faster and I get better scalers on ytdl(p)+mpv
Could you elaborate on your workflow for that? I am really interested in doing the same.
Personally, I copy the url from the link or at worst the url bar after clicking into youtube.
Then ‘mpv + [pasted url]’ into a terminal (I use Yakuake as a quick terminal) and it’s away quicker than youtube.com anyway.
mpv automagically invokes ytdl/yt-dlp if you have it installed on linux or if it’s in the same directory as mpv or in a directory added to your windows search paths on windows. MacOS, just use a package manager like macports/homebrew.
What is this?
mpv? yt-dlp? mpv is a media player, kind of like VLC but more powerful and lightweight.
yt-dlp is a CLI (command line interface) tool that allows you to download youtube videos as videos, videos without audio, or just as audio files.More powerful and lightweight than VLC? I didn’t know such things existed.
Are Piped or vanced affected as well?
I had issues yesterday with re vanced, but it was only a couple of videos not all
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I exclusively use Piped, and never have any problems. No ads, no bullshit, sponsorblock and DeArrow.
You browse YouTube in the browser then use a handler to send it to MPV?
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Clearly this isn’t an anti-competition effort.
We need to being back trust busting.
FTC is already on Google’s case
Yeah that $1000 fine should fix things (or whatever amount they pick)
75% of annual revenue until the issue is addressed would actually work.
Yes well that’s pie in the sky.
The question is why? Having big corporations beyond the control of regulation should not be as normalized as it is.
A pie in the face is worth two in the sky.
Oh lol so that was it, yesterday all of a sudden 1440p and 4k videos were unwatchable, it was a stutter fest and thought something was wrong with my gpu.
I’ve noticed that 60fps videos struggle a lot, even at 720p, suspiciously, no issues on chrome
Ya I’ve had this issue for months now, the video will freeze when the original 10 seconds of buffer is used, and it’ll play fine if I skip another 10 seconds but just buffer indefinitely otherwise.
I’ve been having this exact issue too
You can get an extension to easily change your browser ‘user agent’ to make YouTube think you’re on chrome lol
Which one
Not OP, I use this https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/uaswitcher/
