Plyr: Cannot select quality on Youtube videos

[davyk7]

Hi everyone !

First thank you for your great job !

I think found an issue in the player behaviour because I just cain't select quality playing YT videos.
When the video is stopped (at the beginning) I can just select the speed. The quality doesn't appear.
Then, when the video is played, the qulity setting appear but choosing an other one doesn't change anything.

Tested on Chrome & Firefox browsers.

Thanks for fixing it.

Regards,

vYk

[sampotts]

This is a limitation of the YouTube API. Feel free to raise a bug over there. I’ve tried and failed. They only make the quality levels available via API after playback has begun. Also when you “request” a quality level change via the API, you may not even get it. I’m thinking about removing the quality support for YouTube completely to be honest, given it’s uselessness.

Sam

On 4 Aug 2018, at 10:37 pm, d@vYk [e-mail] wrote:

Hi everyone !

First thank you for your great job !

I think found an issue in the player behaviour because I just cain't select quality playing YT videos.
When the video is stopped (at the beginning) I can just select the speed. The quality doesn't appear.
Then, when the video is played, the qulity setting appear but choosing an other one doesn't change anything.

Tested on Chrome & Firefox browsers.

Thanks for fixing it.

Regards,

vYk

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[tocsinde]

This is a known problem with no real solution in sight as YouTube ignores it, see https://github.com/sampotts/plyr/issues/965

[davyk7]

It's a shame that YT doesn't do anything. Thanks for replying !

vYk

[friday]

I’m thinking about removing the quality support for YouTube completely to be honest, given it’s uselessness.

+1 on this since the code is not serving any function now, and the UI just confuses users that they have options.

Would probably be a good idea to follow that by documenting provider support for various features, like captions and quality selection in the docs and FAQ, then close the related issues (#851, #965, #1110 and this issue).

[sampotts]

Would probably be a good idea to follow that by documenting provider support for various features, like captions and quality selection in the docs and FAQ

Good idea! I'll create a matrix in the docs and wiki

[sampotts]

We've decided to remove support for YouTube quality control as the API was becoming less and less useful to the point where it didn't work 99% of the time. I'll write some documentation on this shortly.