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I was highly amused just a few days ago when a 1080p60 YouTube video was not playing correctly in Chrome (dropping frames), but played perfectly fine in Firefox

I was highly amused just a few days ago when a 1080p60 YouTube video was not playing correctly in Chrome (dropping frames), but played perfectly fine in Firefox. Resource utilization was not the problem on that machine. I tried restarting chrome, disabling extensions, etc but it seemed to just be some weird bug. I will also take a moment to rant about the fact that YouTube allows you to select from a bevy of lower resolutions, but doesn’t allow you to select a lower frame rate. Many times I would rather watch a 1080p30 video on slower hardware instead of the 720p60 I am forced into selecting.

mojomark 7y ago
> I will also take a moment to rant about the fact that YouTube allows you to select from a bevy of lower resolutions, but doesn’t allow you to select a lower frame rate. Many times I would rather watch a 1080p30 video on slower hardware instead of the 720p60 I am forced into selecting. I've thought about this too. I'm not certain, but I suspect this has to do with streaming video compression, specifically the fact that most video compression schemes I know of are temporal (i.e. they can eliminate the need to transmit a lot of data based on unchanged or productively changing pixels between consecutive frames). With a lower frame rate, the probability that pixels in consecutive frames being related decreases. That's my guess anyway.
- leni536 7y ago
  In these cases 1080p30 is typically available. AFAIK there is a setting, only available to logged in users. If you are not logged in then youtube-dl is also an option. I also used a browser extension before to reenable the lower framerate options, but it stopped working.