Missing quality options

[TylerHobanDotCom]

Over the past few days the quality options I had before are no longer showing, even on the same videos. It seems like no matter what video I go to there is only a medium - mp4 option.

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[Discookie]

I've noticed this too, mainly on videos that contain music.
Youtube simply doesn't serve the regular 720p on these videos for some reason.

[dimqua]

Can you provide any example(s), please?

[Discookie]

Sure, here's 4 - very few videos have 720p as an option:
https://invidio.us/channel/UCw49uOTAJjGUdoAeUcp7tOg
https://invidio.us/channel/UC3ifTl5zKiCAhHIBQYcaTeg
https://invidio.us/channel/UC9ecwl3FTG66jIKA9JRDtmg
https://invidio.us/channel/UC5nc_ZtjKW1htCVZVRxlQAQ

Notice that they're music channels.

[omarroth]

I've noticed this as well. I don't think this is an issue with Invidious however, as the problem appears to be that YouTube is not providing any other qualities.

[dimqua]

It provides only 720p DASH videos.

[TylerHobanDotCom]

Hmm. Maybe @omarroth can add DASH support to the player then? You can add DASH support to VideoJS. (See https://videojs.github.io/videojs-contrib-dash/)

Also did YouTube just recently stop serving 720p mp4 files for music? I could have sworn many of the videos worked before.

[omarroth]

DASH support is currently in beta. You can enable it in your preferences by changing your preferred quality to dash, see #34.

I've also only noticed it recently, so it may be another attempt by YouTube to restrict access to videos.

[omarroth]

I think I'll close this, since the issue appears to be that YouTube is not providing any other non-DASH streams, which isn't really something that's possible to fix.