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A Chrome extension that makes YouTube stream H.264 videos instead of VP8/VP9 videos

13 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 2 stories, 11 comments · first 2015-02-17 · latest 2024-03-16

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  1. …browser extension used to be great for working around this issue (by forcing youtube to serve h264) https://github.com/erkserkserks/h264ify
    comment by Retr0id · 2024-03-16 · in How web bloat impacts users with slow devices
  2. …source code and also compile/package it yourself, if you do not want to trust addons.mozilla.org: https://github.com/erkserkserks/h264ify
    comment by commoner · 2021-09-28 · in Google sets burial date for legacy Chrome Extensions, fears for ad-blockers grow
  3. Maybe you can force the YouTube web app to use the H.264 version? https://github.com/erkserkserks/h264ify Or is there no longer an H.264 4k version?
    comment by rahimnathwani · 2020-07-06 · in H.266/Versatile Video Coding (VVC)
  4. The addon I use is: https://github.com/erkserkserks/h264ify
    comment by nathancahill · 2019-10-22 · in Firefox 70
  5. …https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=399960... , not to mention extensions like https://github.com/erkserkserks/h264ify / https://github.com/erkserkserks/h264ify-firefox with hundreds of thousands of users. > VP9 decodes…
    comment by acdha · 2018-02-08 · in Apple Backs AV1: What Does This Mean for the Future of Video Codecs
  6. …Full Page Screen Capture https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/full-page-screen-c... h264ify https://github.com/erkserkserks/h264ify Linkclump https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/linkclump/lfpjknco...
    comment by bdz · 2017-11-14 · in Ask HN: What are your favorite browser extensions/add-ons for Firefox or chrome?
  7. …this recently and the difference in heat and battery life on my Macbook Pro is astounding. https://github.com/erkserkserks/h264ify
    comment by etherealG · 2017-09-02 · in Insane state of today's advertising part 3
  8. …being decoded on the GPU. You can try the h264ify extension[1] to force h264 on your netbook. [1] https://github.com/erkserkserks/h264ify
    comment by sunnyps · 2015-11-21 · in How the SoC Is Displacing the CPU
  9. …for whatever reason they seem to refuse to fix the problem. Here is a simple test I just ran: Using https://github.com/erkserkserks/h264ify for blocking VP9 2015 rMBP 13", 3.1Ghz i7, 16GB (defaults to software rasterization in chrome)…
    comment by mbell · 2015-06-30 · in Safari is the new IE
  10. …and if your GPU supports hardware H.264 decoding (most do these days), this plugin may help: https://github.com/erkserkserks/h264ify Otherwise Youtube might send VP8, which your CPU has to decode.
    comment by syshax · 2015-05-26 · in Web vs. native: let’s concede defeat
  11. …serve me with h264 in order to be able to watch 4K videos & maintain reasonable battery life. [0] https://github.com/erkserkserks/h264ify
    comment by SoapSeller · 2015-04-06 · in VP9: Faster, better, buffer-free YouTube videos