YouTube is crippling Firefox on Asahi Linux

Re:YouTube is crippling Firefox on Asahi Linux by OJFord on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @07:52AM (#38611500)

Could it not tell if it's actually managing to play and keep up with time? Similarly to how (I believe) it'll degrade if the network is such that it's not loading 4k say quickly enough, it'll switch (if 'auto') to 1080p or whatever.

> Detecting if the device has 20 cores or whatever like he says if possible would be more invasive of privacy.

What he claims though is that they do already do that at least if it's not aarch64:

> Quality 1080 by default. If your machine has 2 or fewer cores, quality 480. If anything ARM, quality 240.

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Re:YouTube is crippling Firefox on Asahi Linux by piaste on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @08:02AM (#38611597)

> Could it not tell if it's actually managing to play and keep up with time? Similarly to how (I believe) it'll degrade if the network is such that it's not loading 4k say quickly enough, it'll switch (if 'auto') to 1080p or whatever.

Probably, but it's pretty poor UX if videos start super-choppy by default and slowly downscale to a playable resolution over several seconds. Having a good default is still important.

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Re:YouTube is crippling Firefox on Asahi Linux by rjsw on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @08:42AM (#38611932)

The test can be during the advert before the video that you want to watch.

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Re:YouTube is crippling Firefox on Asahi Linux by OJFord on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @08:58AM (#38612110)

Worse than stuttering if it's the network? Anyway, it could go up.

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