1080p and other video support

[Discookie]

Users should be able to freely choose between all available video resolutions, and not just those that have bundled audio.

Example video: https://invidio.us/watch?v=x47Ins_rkgk

VideoJS provides ways to add extra tracks, and all formats are served via adaptive_fmts in /get_video_info.

Maybe utilize &bitrate= and &resolution= options (for audio and video, respectively) if &quality= is not present?

[dimqua]

Also note that 480p video resolution is not supported currently too, as well as 720p @ webm.

[omarroth]

Just thought I'd update folks on this. VideoJS provides ways to manage tracks, but not to play them unless they're already contained within the video file, which unfortunately they are not in this case. VideoJS leaves it up to other plugins, like videojs-contrib-hls to manage playback of multiple streams. Currently I'm working on getting the video streams into a format that one of those plugins should support.

[omarroth]

Hopefully the last update before this is added: Invidious can generate working DASH manifests for most videos, which means all that needs to be implemented is support on the client-side. For that the only missing piece appears to be videojs/http-streaming#162 so that VideoJS can play properly play manifests and integrate them into speed control, quality selector, etc.

[ghost]

@omarroth
Holy smokes! Many thanks for all the glorious work.

[omarroth]

Added experimental 1080p with b3ca392. You can enable it if you're logged in by going to your preferences and selecting dash as your preferred video quality. Currently it's not integrated into other parts of the player, and you cannot currently select preferred quality. It essentially emulates the auto setting on YouTube. Default speed also won't be respected for dash.

Currently the main interest with pushing out DASH support is to find any errors in playback namely buffer speed and bandwidth usage. Please feel free to open an issue if you encounter any errors or if dash support is missing from any videos.

[beerisgood]

How is the status?
Also it would be better if this option is possible without a account

[omarroth]

Hi! This is waiting on videojs/http-streaming#455. I haven't mentioned this much since I don't want to put any pressure on the great folks working on that project. Once that's been implemented expect progress on this issue to start moving much more quickly.

The reason it requires a way to "opt-in" is because it includes a much larger library in order to play 1080p. I'm waiting on http-streaming since it's already used for livestreams and is roughly 1/5th the size of the library I'm currently using to implement this feature.

[omarroth]

@beerisgood

Just pushed a fix that allows you to specify quality=dash the same as you would with any other video preference. So for example https://invidio.us/watch?v=1Ph_ORewpE0&quality=dash will allow you to watch 1080p without creating an account.

[ghost]

@beerisgood

Just pushed a fix that allows you to specify quality=dash the same as you would with any other video preference. So for example https://invidio.us/watch?v=1Ph_ORewpE0&quality=dash will allow you to watch 1080p without creating an account.

Suuuper nice! Really awesome to see this project evolving.

Dash playback is broken for me though on both FF and Edge. Only sound, no video.

[omarroth]

Other folks have been encountering that as well. It appears that YouTube is trying out new codecs that aren't supported by default in all browsers. You might try enabling media.av1.enabled in about:config for FF, Chrome has a similar option and I assume Edge does as well.

See here for some more info.

[beerisgood]

@beerisgood

Just pushed a fix that allows you to specify quality=dash the same as you would with any other video preference. So for example https://invidio.us/watch?v=1Ph_ORewpE0&quality=dash will allow you to watch 1080p without creating an account.

Works great. Thanks!

[omarroth]

Added source selector with 075adb4 so it should now be possible to select quality for 1080p streams and higher with dash enabled.

[beerisgood]

Added source selector with 075adb4 so it should now be possible to select quality for 1080p streams and higher with dash enabled.

I test with that video: https://invidio.us/watch?v=Bey4XXJAqS8&quality=dash
Invidio go to 1080p, while youtube to 2160p (4K): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bey4XXJAqS8

[Discookie]

Thank you! It works really well for me.

Although I've found a couple of bugs with it:

• On some videos, it displays weird resolutions, such as 960p, 640p, 428p...
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ti_SAasweI
  These are the correct resolutions, but with Youtube using 1080p/720p/etc, it doesn't look right.
• Listen mode has no quality selector at all, if DASH is enabled. (Still has them if it's disabled)
  https://invidio.us/watch?v=cfVKviYjCVQ&listen=1

Also, the video in #333 now fails to play altogether, as there's no falling back to another source.

[ghost]

I'm truly amazed how this project develops! Since dash support got introduced, not even a connection to google is needed anymore, according to umatrix. How does that even work? I presume it just redirects somehow to googlevideo.com through invidio.us?

Invidious even supports 60fps through DASH, but you can't explicitly select it, it gets auto selected with 720 and 1080. I swear I saw it selecting 30 instead of 60 from time to time.

I can't pin down why (tested different browsers and connections), but sometimes the quality selection is pretty wonky, acting as a Soft hint for Auto and not a hard constraint quality selection.
The Video sometimes auto plays at sub 720p. When you make the selection to 1080p it goes potato mode. Seemingly when it buffered enough of 1080p the video stops playing whilst audio continues. Dragging the video slider to the beginning then properly starts playing the 1080p60 stream. But at other times it acts as a hard constraint, pausing the video until 1080p60 can be played.

[ealgase]

@SairesArt the video is proxied through invidious, so you don't have to connect to Google.

[Atn-D]

Would it be possible to set the "dash" to 1080p by default and not "auto"?

Do you plan to add support for 2160p (4K) and 1440p (2K) video?

Thank you. 😊

[Perflyst]

With a "bad" (~3-6Mbit/s) connection you cannot stream 1080p on invidious with waiting for the loading screen. Maybe a setting option but not default please.

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[theScrabi]

In NewPipe we display a combination of dash and nondash videos. Could this be something considerable as well?

[rezad1393]

Would it be possible to set the "dash" to 1080p by default and not "auto"?

Do you plan to add support for 2160p (4K) and 1440p (2K) video?

Thank you. blush

I also second this suggestion but maybe with a configurable dash quality (user choice) and not set only to 1080 but to the quality user chooses. so that user can set the video to dash and ,say, 720 and then by default the invidious instance plays at that quality without checking internet connection.
when I use dash option I almost always get 240 or 144 on invidious but on youtube I get 720 (my max laptop resolution).

btw can other codecs be supported? like vp9 and av1? both of these have higher quality picture (on youtube) that even me with my not 20-20 vision can see.
for example this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42DUA51FXOU
the one on youtube is shown as av1 codec but the one on https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=42DUA51FXOU is in h264.
both are 720 but the av1 is visually better.

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[syeopite]

Bump

[syeopite]

More recent versions of VideoJS seems to support more formats, but since quality selection is unfortunately broken on them, we can't upgrade.

[unixfox]

Checkout invidio.xamh.de . They added support for higher resolutions very recently. Interestingly the "Modified source" link is missing, so I am not sure which repo is this made from.

Every invidious instances offer high resolutions, not sure why you are being specific on this instance.

[stelioskat]

Checkout invidio.xamh.de . They added support for higher resolutions very recently. Interestingly the "Modified source" link is missing, so I am not sure which repo is this made from.

Every invidious instances offer high resolutions, not sure why you are being specific on this instance.

Sorry, my bad. I am new to invidious and hadn't discovered the "dash" setting. Letting me to believe that 720p is the maximum resolution. Reading now more of the previous comments in this open issue, I saw were my misunderstanding was.

[unixfox]

Checkout invidio.xamh.de . They added support for higher resolutions very recently. Interestingly the "Modified source" link is missing, so I am not sure which repo is this made from.

Every invidious instances offer high resolutions, not sure why you are being specific on this instance.

Sorry, my bad. I am new to invidious and hadn't discovered the "dash" setting. Letting me to believe that 720p is the maximum resolution. Reading now more of the previous comments in this open issue, I saw were my misunderstanding was.

Don't worry it's understandable, we have plans to merge all of these video settings because it creates confusion for the new users.

[rezad1393]

thank you for all the the great efforts for progress of this project.
can I ask for codec selection here support or does the other player (videojs or whatever that is) doesnt support anything other than h264?
this would help a lot with bandwidth usage of instances as av1 and vp9 are smaller (sometimes as much as 30-40%) and of course users net usage and speed.
also quality of stream are better with newer codecs even on the same resolution and smaller size as I have given an example that is visually noticeable at my last post.
from last post:
"btw can other codecs be supported? like vp9 and av1? both of these have higher quality picture (on youtube) that even me with my not 20-20 vision can see.
for example this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42DUA51FXOU
the one on youtube is shown as av1 codec but the one on https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=42DUA51FXOU is in h264.
both are 720 but the av1 is visually better."

[unixfox]

1080p+ support is available when dash is enabled.