Can't play YouTube videos in greater than 360p?

azuli

Basically have the same problem as OP.

Anyone have any Idea how I could force youtube to give me the flash player, instead of html5?

All the info out there I could find only helps with forcing the flash player on chrome.

with this extension ''YouTube Flash-HTML5''

tchncs

Man, still a problem - i will not use flash.
I think a modern browser have to support this.
Fun fact: it doesn't affect all videos - it is a random problem - kinda.

It is very sad that Vivaldi is the only browser i've every seen with this kind of trouble.

iAN CooG

I'm watching 720@60fps YT videos in Vivaldi everyday, no problem. OK, apart that I have to stay in full screen, while in windowed mode it drops lots of frames

tchncs

@iAN-CooG maybe you have luck with the youtubers?
As mentioned, it feels quite random.
I was trying to give you an example but now, it magicly works on the videos in my abobox where it didn't worked before.
But since it also happens to quite old videos randomly, it is hard to reproduce and hard to say where it could happen,
where not... . It pretty much feels like a very annoying bug.

iAN CooG

Do you use any YT related plugin? Sometimes YouTube Center Developer Build bugs and while it automatically and correctly selects 720p resolution, as I set it to do so, often other resolutions apart 360p are not available, until I disable and re-enable it, then it shows all possible video resolutions.

tchncs

@iAN-CooG no, honestly my current setup is quite fresh because i forgot to copy the config files from Vivaldi to the new SSD. So - just uBlockOrigin here.