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by joe_mamba 3 days ago
>but VP9 support is absent (or not exposed in many common Linux paths) so YouTube is sloppy [...] but YouTube 4K is generally VP9 or AV1 rather than HEVC

I installed linux yesterday. Youtube doesn't let you backtrack to VP9 in the user profile setting. It serves AV1 by default now for all resolutions. Bummer if you're on older and/or low end hardware.

Maybe some browser extensions can force VP9?
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soganess 3 days ago
I believe h264-ify still does. And many of the fancy "remake YouTube to not suck" extensions do as well.
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joe_mamba 3 days ago
>I believe h264-ify still does

To h264 yes, but not to VP9, no?

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soganess 3 days ago
Yup, the name is a bit of a misnomer at this point: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/enhanced-h264...

What you really do is disallow everything save vp9...

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