High-resolution YouTube videos

It took a little longer than I'd have liked, considering the simplicity of the patch, but I've finally added support for high-resolution videos in Totem's YouTube plugin.

Compare:

Korpiklaani\'s Wooden Pints in low resolution.

Korpiklaani\'s Wooden Pints in high resolution.

On the top is the old, low-resolution video, and on the bottom is the spiffy new high-resolution video, automatically downloaded using YouTube's fmt=18 option if your connection speed is set to 1.5Mbps or higher. As per Bastien's testing, we can't use the fmt=6 option due to it not being supported for many videos.

The difference may not be immediately obvious due to the window being so small for the screenshot, but it is visible — just look at the left-hand side of the hut's roof. Enjoy.

4 thoughts on “High-resolution YouTube videos

  1. Fred

    It sure would be nice if your plug-in worked in Fedora.

    Although i don't get an error on the command line as in this bug:
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=441649

    ... I do get:
    "Totem cannot play this type of media (YouTube) because you do not have the appropriate plugins to handle it."

    ...and yes, i do have every gstreamer plugin installed 🙂

    totem-2.23.2-2.fc9.i386

    gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.7-1.fc9.i386
    totem-gstreamer-2.23.2-2.fc9.i386
    gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.8-1.lvn9.i386
    gstreamer-plugins-pulse-0.9.5-0.5.svn20070924.fc9.i386
    gstreamer-plugins-bad-extras-0.10.7-1.lvn9.i386
    gstreamer-tools-0.10.19-1.fc9.i386
    gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.19-1.fc9.i386
    gstreamer-0.10.19-1.fc9.i386
    gstreamer-python-0.10.11-2.fc9.i386
    gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.10.4-1.lvn9.i386
    gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.7-1.lvn9.i386

    Cheers,
    Fred

    1. Philip Withnall Post author

      Do you want to e-mail me (see the contact page) to sort this out? I don't really want to do bug triaging in a comment thread. 😉

      Sounds like the check for the flvdemux or soup plugin is failing, though.

  2. gpasci

    just installed on hardy64..
    works and looks very very good
    thanks for this awesome plugin

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