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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon anxdpanic

Add option to disable VP9 codec

Open matejdro opened this issue 1 year ago • 0 comments

What Problem Does This Solve?

Nvidia Shield 2019 (the tube version) does not have a hardware decoder for VP9 videos.

Up until recently, this was not the issue as only HDR videos were in the VP9 (so just disabling the HDR effectively disabled VP9 codec). However, recently it seems like Youtube also started to offer regular 4K videos in VP9.

Plugin seems to prefer to select VP9 video over the h265 4K stream, which causes a very choppy playback on the Shield 2019.

Current workaround is to limit the quality to 1080p, but this will also prevent 4K streams from videos that have H265 4K stream available.

Suggest a Solution (optional)

Add an option to the MPEG-DASH menu (next to the HDR toggle) to enable/disable streams with VP9 codec. Plugin should fallback to H265 4K (if available, otherwise just pick a best non-VP9 quality available).

matejdro avatar Aug 28 '22 10:08 matejdro