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A few weeks ago I rented the Alien: Covenant movie on youtube because I didn't even know it existed. About 2 minutes in I noticed it was playing at 480p. I paid
by lbotos 4y ago
A few weeks ago I rented the Alien: Covenant movie on youtube because I didn't even know it existed. About 2 minutes in I noticed it was playing at 480p. I paid the extra dollar for HD rental. Lo and behold, if you want to watch rented youtube movies in HD (which you paid for) you can't do it in chrome browser on mac but hilariously safari did let me watch it in HD on the same computer... Those 15 minutes of debugging added about 3 cuts to the 10000 caused by silly restrictions that exist.
- tobyhinloopen 4y agoNetflix is the same. You can only watch HD netflix on the netflix app or on edge.
- inkcapmushroom 4y agoThanks for this, I was wondering why my show had massive artifacting even after I changed settings which supposedly should have made the picture quality better. I'll have to try another browser.
- danuker 4y agoI suspect it's because of DRM. Funnily enough Firefox can apparently use Google Widevine on MacOS: https://www.drm.cloud/platform-compatibility/ https://www.drm.cloud/platform-compatibility/ I am puzzled at these ridiculous restrictions but I am happy with their effect: a million papercuts driving viewers away. https://www.defectivebydesign.org/ https://www.defectivebydesign.org/