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ReVanced
feat(patch): Enable higher resolution on lower-res displays
Application
Youtube
Issue
It would solve Youtube hard-capping phones with lower-res displays and maximize the phone's capability.
Patch
Allow phones with lower-res displays to access higher resolution, better framerate, better bitrate.
Motivation
Youtube's higher resolutions offers higher bitrates as well so it would give better quality even in low-res displays. This scenario can be replicated in PCs/laptops that has 1080p displays but can play 4k, 8k videos, the quality will drastically improve.
This was also an option available in the earlier versions of Vanced.
Acknowledgements
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i don't see any benefits on this. If your display is 720p it can only show 720p no matter what res you play the video in.
In one word? Bitrate. Resolution isnt everything, a 4k video with crappy bitrate isn't going to look good no matter what you do. Youtube allocates more bandwidth towards streaming the video at a higher bitrate in the higher resolutions. So, as confusing as it might be, yes, running higher resolution videos than what your display can show on youtube does in fact still have benefits
In one word? Bitrate. Resolution isnt everything, a 4k video with crappy bitrate isn't going to look good no matter what you do. Youtube allocates more bandwidth towards streaming the video at a higher bitrate in the higher resolutions. So, as confusing as it might be, yes, running higher resolution videos than what your display can show on youtube does in fact still have benefits
I don't know what eyes you guys have , but bitrates above 1 mbps is not noticble for me lol, and i think YouTube allows bitrates up to 12 mbps for 1080 if i remember correctly, do you really notice anything higher than that? And at what exactly? I would love to hear your answer 🙂
I don't know man, but playing 4k youtube content on a 1080p screen (phone/laptop) is drastically better for me. Even 1440p content is a noticeable improvement. You can try to replicate it to test yourself.
I don't know man, but playing 4k youtube content on a 1080p screen (phone/laptop) is drastically better for me. Even 1440p content is a noticeable improvement. You can try to replicate it to test yourself.
Well unfortunately i live in a country were even home wifi is limited so 720p is the highest i can watch content at or my father will make me pay for it , so i am good for now , most content i watch i don't really care much about the image quality, but btw my phone screen is 1080p and I still see the option to watch 2160p content, and the same thing for PC, don't you get it too?!
In one word? Bitrate. Resolution isnt everything, a 4k video with crappy bitrate isn't going to look good no matter what you do. Youtube allocates more bandwidth towards streaming the video at a higher bitrate in the higher resolutions. So, as confusing as it might be, yes, running higher resolution videos than what your display can show on youtube does in fact still have benefits
I don't know what eyes you guys have , but bitrates above 1 mbps is not noticble for me lol, and i think YouTube allows bitrates up to 12 mbps for 1080 if i remember correctly, do you really notice anything higher than that? And at what exactly? I would love to hear your answer 🙂
its very noticeable, once you get used to higher bitrates, its extremely hard to go back. kind of like framerates
Extended already has the feature.
https://github.com/inotia00/revanced-patches/commit/ecbedb79bdc5b79aa7c8c590cbecabe053d9c60f
But what you need to know is that the exoplayer v2 used by youtube refuses to play videos that are higher than the hardware decoding capabilities supported by the device. Availability is checked more strictly in v2 than in exoplayer v1 when the function was implemented in old vanced. If you say "playable in the browser", the browser is probably doing software decoding. (This means that the CPU is used.)
Anyway, try Extended first. Its name is for vertical videos, but it actually loads 4k videos in both landscape and portrait.
I recently got my phone and it was able to stream 1080p-1440p quality on YouTube until three months after using my revanced I noticed all the videos on YouTube were capped at 480p and I can't go higher. I believe if this patch can be made it will help improve my quality. Would really really appreciate
