Don’t know what you are looking at.
Was pessimistic, but decided to try what you’re describing…
Installed the “User Agent Over-rider” extension to FF, enabled the “Chrome 34” agent.
(The browser agent is the proper name for what you’re describing when you say “browser id”)
Tested on YouTube and as I described before, only 360p is offered using the GUI tool I described (click on the gear icon, then “Quality” to view options).
As I described, I can’t imagine why there would be some kind of conspiracy to deny Users access, and advertising can’t be a reason (advertising can be served to anyone, you don’t have to force a particular browser platform). It’s very, very likely only a matter of the capability of the code used by FF, specifically the embedded html5 player.
I’m just thinking aloud, Maybe “your google server” only has 360p video’s, maybe that video is only available in 360p
could be an amd/ati issue, did you try 173.194.33.136 youtube.com in /etc/hosts
Conspiracy wouldn’t be beyond the folks at Google, but it makes more sense to sort out the bits and pieces and make some sense of it because I want to make this Leap thing work damit. So with the base settings in Firefox for media.mediasource alternating false,true,false,true,false and media.fragmented settings at true, false,false,false,false, I get 360p on OpenSuse. And I’m not alone, the net has complaints on this all over the place. Yet today I loaded LInuxMint17.3 on another machine and using the same google servers, and the same default settings in Firefox for media.mediasource/fragmented as in OpenSuse, Linux Mint plays like a dream, right up to the highest rez available. So why doesn’t some high mucky muck at OpenSuse deign to lower themselves to answering the question why this symptom presents itself on two different OpenSuse machines in my house as compared to the third running LinuxMint? I appreciate all the theorizing, but while this might not be on OpenSuse’ radar and I don’t represent a revenue stream for them, it’d be great to know whose door I can rap on to get their attention.
I noted that FF in OpenSuse Leap is a “branded” version. And I seem to recall reading that someone didn’t like it for some reason and downloaded it directly from Mozilla and got greater satisfaction. At the time I thought, nawwww, that can’t be the solution.
That’s the thing! Webm is already set to false by default. If I switch on all the other things that force high rez which causes a crash later, then switching off webm to try out your suggestion, it crashes immediately. ****ed if I do, ****ed if I don’t.
Here’s another joke. The other machine I put Linux Mint on yesterday that was running so smoothly? Did a simple update for the updater app, you should’ve seen the performance. Jittering, freezing, reboot after reboot, then it settled down and now crashes as soon as Firefox is started.
You know what? I think Microsoft is sitting back and laughing at Free Software. They are laughing so hard, they’re afraid we might hear them and begin to wonder why that is. I started wondering that a long time ago and I do know why. Free Software is divided, fractured into dozens upon dozens of variants and totally without focus and that’s why a guy like me, who although I’ve got 25 years of experience with these infernal machines, cannot install a distro on two machines in a row and get the same result without a crapload of fidgeting around. And that’s fine for some guys, who like doing that for a hobby and to teach themselves about the OS. But at the end of the day, there has to be some order and a means to get some work done and it suddenly becomes apparent that the only way to accomplish that is to use an OS that is engineered and developed, as opposed to cobbled together and maintained on the fly. If the LInux community were to come together under one banner and develop O N E Operating System for the World that everybody could use and the community devoted all their time and efforts to achieving that instead of dividing their efforts amongst a hundred variants, that would be worth something don’t you think? I mean, come on. If they’re giving it away for free, what earthly good is it to the lowly sap who is only trying to shake off the binds a Windows system obliges you to accept as a condition of using their spy-ware?
So, you set webm to true?
Webm is a relatively new FOSS container and codec owned and licensed (completely free for everyone to use in any way) by Google.
If it really is a webm issue, then you should try to view in Chromium/Chrome for max capability and support for webm.
And, if you still see a problem, then your problems aren’t very likely related to webm.
Unless you discover something surprising, I still don’t suspect any codec, server or OS issue… It’s the player, and specifically from what you seem to be trying is the embedded html5 video player (in the browser).
No, I didn’t set it to false. It comes that way. Just like the Linux Mint install I did yesterday it is also set to false by default. The difference between the two is that in MINT, you get 1080p. In OpenSuse Leap, you get 360p. Everyone is telling me to turn it off. It is off.
Recommend you verify the browser version is identical (or nearly so) in both Mint and LEAP. If there is a difference, note which one might be later/earlier.
You might also inspect installed browser extensions to see if something has been added to enhance. The objective is to see if you can install/configure your LEAP browser to be the same as what is in MINT.
Although I still think it’s not a highly likely possibility that it’s a codec issue, I’ve noticed that somehow MINT finds it acceptable to install proprietary software by default (which openSUSE takes a fairly hard line not acceptable) which could mean their version of the browser has something which wouldn’t be installed by default by LEAP.
So, if you have access to some <other> distro I’d wonder if the same tests work conform with your MINT or LEAP results.
a bit late with this question but did you try Chromium (with chromium-ffmpeg from packman) can you get high res video with Chromium?
Like tsu2 said Mint ships with propitiatory codecs (and maybe drivers) are you sure that this is a Firefox only issue?
Some Firefox addons can interrupt youtube I remember a funky addon from a vpn client (that I won’t mention) tried to hijack my youtube browsing and inject ads (the vpn’s justification was they wore unblocking video’s) what happens if you run Firefox with adons disabled, from the help button select restart with addons disabled (it’ at the bottom of the supper button)
Yes I did try Chromium with ffmpeg, no joy there either. As for Mint, I nixed it and put Suse 13.2 on, that works, so that machine is fixed as far as I’m concerned. The other two, with Leap, I’m simply going to live with the 360p and if the machine running my tv complains any further, I’ll put 13.2 on that one as well and shut down any further updates whatsover on all three machines. The lesson I’ve learned is that distros that continually evolve are sitting under a cloud of potential disruption. Only when a new version replaces it, for me it seems, is it safe to run full time.