VP9/WebM + YouTube = F-Zero GX no longer looks like utter crap

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(06-27-2014, 08:27 PM)teh_speleegn_polease Wrote: One weird... effect of the HTML5 player for me is the inability to play in 1080p. In fact, I can only choose between 360 and 720p. Any idea why?

I know exactly why this is. Firefox (and firefox-based browsers) do not currently support DASH playback via HTML5, which also means you're not getting VP9 either since that's available only as a DASH format on YouTube.

This is supposed to be rectified in Firefox 31. Since that's also a new ESR version, that should mean that all Firefox-based browsers should get the functionality with their next full version number.

In the mean time, your browser may actually have partial support for this functionality, but is just disabled. You can re-enable said functionality via the following process:

http://vpsdash.com/how-to-enable-media-source-extensions-in-firefox/ Wrote:1.　Type about:config into the web browser’s address bar and hit enter.
2.　Confirm that you will be careful if a warning message is displayed.
3.　Search for media.mediasource.enabled and double-click the name.

Fun fact: YouTube's non-DASH 720p h.264 format actually has a higher bitrate than their DASH 720p h.264 format.

EDIT:

(06-27-2014, 08:27 PM)teh_speleegn_polease Wrote: I'm almost about to switch back to the default flash player due to this...

I just did some testing and it seems like flash player will not run the video at 60fps even though it runs the same video stream. If you look at "stats for nerds" you'll see that the "dropped frames" amount very quickly goes into the hundreds along with the stage FPS only showing around 30fps. This indicates that it's likely dropping every other frame to make a 60fps video stream be 30fps.