Playing at lower definition

[harryray33]

I have this set to play videos at 480p definition. Unfortunately, if 480p isn't available, Youtube defaults to the highest definition.

Is it possible to include an option to play at a lower definition if 480p isn't available?
Thanks.

[ImprovedTube]

Hi @harryray33! :) Please confirm "highest". The next higher neighbor would be intentional as 360p and 240p might be considered too low. Of course we could by default have a priority order like 480p > 720p > 360p > 1080p > 240p .

Always looking forward to any input / pull requests.

[harryray33]

480p > 360p > 720p.

[raszpl]

this is the line that needs work

youtube/js&css/web-accessible/www.youtube.com/player.js

Line 387 in 73cbd81

quality = available_quality_levels[0];

You cant just plonk '240p' into player.setPlaybackQuality(quality); it expects those weird levels like hd720
label = ['tiny', 'small', 'medium', 'large', 'hd720', 'hd1080', 'hd1440', 'hd2160', 'hd2880', 'highres']
resolution = ['144', '240', '360', '480', '720', '1080', '1440', '2160', '2880', '4320']
translate quality label to resolution, find nearest inside player.getAvailableQualityLevels() with this stackoverflow function:

function closest (num, arr) {
                var curr = arr[0];
                var diff = Math.abs (num - curr);
                for (var val = 0; val < arr.length; val++) {
                    var newdiff = Math.abs (num - arr[val]);
                    if (newdiff < diff) {
                        diff = newdiff;
                        curr = arr[val];
                    }
                }
                return curr;
            }
//array = [2, 42, 82, 122, 162, 202, 242, 282, 322, 362];
//number = 112;
//closest (number, array));

translate back to label and use that

[ImprovedTube]

480p > 360p > 720p.

for bandwidth? low resolution seems relaxing sometimes, retro

[raszpl]

#1672 I didnt test it extensively

[ImprovedTube]

@harryray33 let us know if you ever come here again