1202283 - Youtube doesn't play in 1080p in Linux and uses all bandwidth

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Audio/Video: Playback, defect)

Description

[Roque]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:40.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/40.0
Build ID: 20150826185918

Steps to reproduce:

I use Firefox 40 on Ubuntu 14.04 and play Youtube.


Actual results:

Youtube doesn't allow me to choose 1080p or 480p, and uses all bandwidth of internet.


Expected results:

It should allow other resolutions and leave some connection for other uses.

Comment 1

[Ralph Giles (:rillian)]

This is up to Youtube, not us, unfortunately.

Comment 2

[Roque]

I don't think so, in Windows it playes in 1080p and doesn't use all bandwidth, as in Chrome on Linux.

Comment 3

[Jean-Yves Avenard [:jya]]

(In reply to Roque from comment #2)
> I don't think so, in Windows it playes in 1080p and doesn't use all
> bandwidth, as in Chrome on Linux.

And you'll find that in Chrome it will serve webm, not mp4/h264.

And Windows has hardware accelerated playback which linux doesn't explicitly support

you can enable mediasource and webm (so you'll get the same behaviour as chrome) by setting the following pref on:
media.mediasource.enabled=true
media.mediasource.webm.enabled=false

Comment 4

[Roque]

Thanks, but why doesn't it come enabled from default?

Comment 5

[Jean-Yves Avenard [:jya]]

It is enabled by default in Nightly (43)

Comment 6

[Roque]

Thanks Jean, do you know if it's still enabled in 43 Aurora?

Comment 7

[Jean-Yves Avenard [:jya]]

Yes it is

Comment 8

[Roque]

Thanks.