Remove HD label from 1080p

[megapro17]

⚬ PROBLEM: YouTube 1080p looks absolutely terrible, and it doesn't deserve to have HD icon around a quality selector. And the same icon is used for 1440p, which looks decent. For 4k there is another icon. If a video doesn't have good quality, I can close it immediately, but because of the HD icon I have to manually open the quality setting and watch in case there is 1440p.

⚬ SOLUTION:
Simply remove it There is a function aW.prototype.updateBadge in base.js with condition that sets ytp-hd-quality-badge for both 1080 and 1440 that could be simply edited to only match 1440. But I can't figure out how you can edit a private function with extension.

⚬ ALTERNATIVES: Make different icon for 1080p

⚬ RELEVANCE / SCOPE: every self respecting person because youtube video quality is absolutely terrible at low resolutions

⚬ "SIDE EFFECTS":

⚬ CONTEXT: // Thank you!

SHORT Table	(Summary)
Problem	1080p doesn't deserve HD icon
Solution	Remove HD label from 1080p
Alternatives	Make different icon for 1080p
Scope	Youtube player
Side effects
Context

[SamantaTarun]

I'd like to work on it.

[ImprovedTube]

hi @tarunsamanta2k20 @megapro17 !

work on it

:-O amazing!

terrible at low resolutions

https://github.com/code-charity/youtube/issues/1580#issuecomment-1530763946

every self respecting person

are you using our quality setting yet? if we watch 1080 in a 720 viewport, for example, wont it be close to uncompressed 720? 💭💭 (HD is the name of 720p. 1080 "fullHD" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxNBiAV4UnM

[megapro17]

are you using our quality setting yet?

I was using youtube hd userscript that sets maximum possible quality all times, with flushing buffer

if we watch 1080 in a 720 viewport, for example, wont it be close to uncompressed 720? 💭💭 (HD is the name of 720p. 1080 "fullHD"

For me, it's still blurry... I don't like the 4000 kpbs for 1080p that YouTube offers. Even on a 1080p 21.5 monitor. The main problem with youtube is not the resolution, it's the bitrate. Bluray 1080p looks incredible

[ImprovedTube]

Next to YouTube GUI tweaks, we could/should probably/in some cases, consider: The range & voilatily of Bitrate of a video. And Youtube's content category. And ..?

main problem with youtube is not the resolution, it's the bitrate

Hi @megapro17, yes, lets find/make an overview.

Bitrates @Resolutions

Resolution	Brand	Codec	Average	Cartoons	Low detail	"one or few people" ( tv, movie, docu.)	High detail	Bird perspective / Map
720p	YouTube	AV1
720p	YT	VP9
720p	YT	H.264
720p	BlueRay
720p	NetFlix
1080p	YT	AV1
1080p	YT	VP9
1080p	YT	H.264
1080p	BR
1080p	NF
4k	YT	AV1
4k	BR
4k	NF
8k	YT

[raszpl]

No matter how much you dislike the label 1080p is "Full HD".

because of the HD icon I have to manually open the quality setting and watch in case there is 1440p.

You can set player/quality to whatever you want to always override to the highest quality regardless viewport resolution.

[starobots]

The new 1080p video is really worse than before. It's just like 480p upscaling to 1080p videos.

[raszpl]

The new 1080p video is really worse than before. It's just like 480p upscaling to 1080p videos.

exaggerations dont really help your case :)

[raszpl]

aaand it looks like you might get your wish of higher quality 1080 https://www.androidpolice.com/youtube-1080p-premium-option-wide-testing/

in the mean time Im ~80% sure you can force it manually editing smplayer.ini and adding --ytdl-raw-options-append=extractor-args=youtube:player_client=default,ios at the end of ytdl_quality=".... declaration