Selecting resolution on YouTube (and possibly other sites)
bagnacauda opened this issue · comments
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Since this extension is very useful for those of us running on older machines, it would be nice to be able to limit (or select) a resolution, to avoid watching 4k videos on a Thinkpad T61.
Describe the solution you'd like
Be able to get a list of the resolution available, or at least be able to limit the resolution to a maximum.
Describe alternatives you've considered
Implement a preferences system in the extension page and sending the settings to the native client via native messaging, or as an alternative a config file read by the python script. I don't know which solution is the best one, but for sure the first one gives you more flexibility on what you can do.
Additional context
Forgot to mention a pretty important thing, on YouTube. facepalm
It should be easy to do since mpv has the hook with youtube-dl, and for sure does support formats on YouTube, but I don't know on other sites, the list of supported sites it's pretty long though.
Please refer to this comment: #23 (comment)
The TL;DR is that ff2mpv is a dumb extension that forwards URLs directly to MPV, which then proxies them to youtube-dl for actual retrieval. It doesn't do any configuration of its own -- if you want non-default resolution settings, you should configure MPV and/or youtube-dl directly to prioritize different resolutions during retrieval.
Something that I would consider: we could add a flag to the native client such that ff2mpv always requests the "ff2mpv" profile from MPV, which would then give users a little bit more granularity in their MPC config. I'm more than happy to accept a PR that does that!