Low Video Quality

[GKid94]

Can you improve the video quality of the codec because when I enable the extension the YouTube videos get a little blurry and when I disable the extension and play YouTube videos with the VP9 codec the videos are sharp

[erkserkserks]

Can you provide a screen shot of the issue and the link of the video?

[GKid94]

You can clearly see that the video quality is worse when the extension is enabled

[erkserkserks]

Could you provide a link to that video? I want to see if I can reproduce it on my system.

The blurriness could be one of two things:

1. The h.264 version of the video has less detail than the VP9 version (this can't be fixed).
2. There is something in the video processing pipeline on your machine that only affects h.264 video (can be fixed).

[GKid94]

Link to the video: https://youtu.be/X497wZAxwcc

[erkserkserks]

h.264 version:

vp9 version:

There is less detail in the h.264 version, but I think that is unavoidable. vp9 gives you better video quality than h.264 at a given bitrate.

In your comparison, are you comparing 1080p vs 1080p? The vp9 version has a 1440p (and 4k version) which would give you sharper images.

[GKid94]

I played it at 720p

[GKid94]

But the VP9 is larger and heavier on resources, it takes longer to load VP9 videos and most of the GPU's don't support VP9 decoding so the YouTube videos use the CPU instead of the GPU

[GKid94]

And you can see that the VP9 codec has a color correction, maybe you could add that in the extension

[GKid94]

?

[ghost]

?

[Kronodile]

Any update on this?

[GKid94]

Any update on this?

I don't think they can do much because it's up to YouTube, maybe just to update the H264 codec