
h264ify by erkserkserks
Makes YouTube stream H.264 videos instead of VP8/VP9 videos
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Try h264ify if YouTube videos stutter, take up too much CPU, eat battery life, or make your laptop hot.
By default, YouTube streams VP8/VP9 encoded video. However, this can cause problems with less powerful machines because VP8/VP9 is not typically hardware accelerated.
In contrast, H.264 is commonly hardware accelerated by GPUs, which usually means smoother video playback and reduced CPU usage. h264ify makes YouTube stream H.264 videos instead of VP8/VP9 videos.
Github: https://github.com/erkserkserks/h264ify
By default, YouTube streams VP8/VP9 encoded video. However, this can cause problems with less powerful machines because VP8/VP9 is not typically hardware accelerated.
In contrast, H.264 is commonly hardware accelerated by GPUs, which usually means smoother video playback and reduced CPU usage. h264ify makes YouTube stream H.264 videos instead of VP8/VP9 videos.
Github: https://github.com/erkserkserks/h264ify
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This add-on needs to:
- Access your data for sites in the youtube.com domain
- Access your data for sites in the youtube-nocookie.com domain
- Access your data for sites in the youtu.be domain
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- Version
- 1.1.0
- Size
- 34.95 KB
- Last updated
- a year ago (Sep 9, 2019)
- License
- MIT/X11 License
- Version History
Add av1 codec to disallowed types.
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