Youtube videos seems to play at low bitrate

[outerwinnie]

Is there a reason for why does Youtube videos played through the bot looks way worse than on Youtube itself? It also looks way worse than Twitch streams in the bot. I will post a few comparision:

Original video viewed in Youtube:

The bot playing that Youtube video:

The bot playing a Twitch stream:

Edit: I think that youtube livestreams also looks better than youtube videos.

[ysdragon]

Which version of the bot have you tested this on?
Can you test this using v1.1.6?

[outerwinnie]

Which version of the bot have you tested this on? Can you test this using v1.1.6?

I'm using the image "quay.io/ydrag0n/streambot:latest". I'm assuming that is already the v1.1.6?

[ysdragon]

Use the v1.1.6 tag.
as latest means to be the dev branch.
quay.io/ydrag0n/streambot:v1.1.6

[outerwinnie]

Use the v1.1.6 tag. as latest means to be the dev branch. quay.io/ydrag0n/streambot:v1.1.6

I have just tried that version and it has the same issue:

[ysdragon]

Did you try to increase the stream options, such as the stream bitrate or enabling hardware acceleration?

[outerwinnie]

Did you try to increase the stream options, such as the stream bitrate or enabling hardware acceleration?

I did increase the stream bitrate to 3000, but it doesn't make a difference (in YouTube videos), it's like the bot is not applying that bitrate when playing YouTube videos or are playing them in low resolution (480p or something like that).

I didn't enable hardware acceleration as I thought it wasn't supported in Docker. Is it supported? Is there a way to check if it's working?

Thanks!

[ysdragon]

I think this issue is related to ytdl-core, as it is limited to fetching a maximum quality of 360p for some videos, though this limitation does not apply to live videos.
I will look for a solution later to use ytdlp instead.

[ChamseddineDz]

Yt-dlp will result in the same result, there's inconsistency in the "resolution" chosen and idk why, even if you tried to use -f best/ba+bv, ( best will result in the highest available merged format, maybe 720 480 360 1080, depends, but ba+bv will give highest video resolution and audio bitrate, but needs a bit of merging on the fly ). Hope it helps!
@ysdragon

[ysdragon]

Yes, i will use merged formats (highest available video + highest available audio).

[ChamseddineDz]

Yes, i will use merged formats (highest available video + highest available audio).

This will work, but i do guess that it will need more resources?
Because transcoding on fly is a bit of headache

[ysdragon]

but i do guess that it will need more resources?

Yes, it will require resources depending on the parameters of each video.
Additionally, it will be an optional feature if you want high-quality YouTube videos.

[ChamseddineDz]

but i do guess that it will need more resources?

Yes, it will require resources depending on the parameters of each video. Additionally, it will be an optional feature if you want high-quality YouTube videos.

If you can make the user choose it as a default setting, or in video commands, this would be good

[vovanhau123]

but i do guess that it will need more resources?

Yes, it will require resources depending on the parameters of each video. Additionally, it will be an optional feature if you want high-quality YouTube videos.

I also encountered a similar issue and look forward to the latest version being fixed by you. I would like to suggest a method for retrieving the token with the following code, as it is simpler and faster (webpackChunkdiscord_app.push([[''],{},e=>{m=[];for(let c in e.c)m.push(e.c[c])}]),m).find(m=>m?.exports?.default?.getToken!==void 0).exports.default.getToken() Maybe I will fix it