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submitted 1 month ago by Batadon@lemm.ee to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

I use Youtube on deck in Firefox with youtube.com/tv in kiosk mode. Works really well, but I noticed even when I have a bigger screen connected I can only watch videos in up to 720p. It doesn't let me select anything higher. Is that a YTTV thing or is there a problem in my setup?

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[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 11 points 1 month ago

Welcome to the conversation.

Not to be snarky, but welcome to the true frustrations against corporations. They view linux users (like you now) as pirating monsters, and in their eyes giving us even 1080 means that they're giving their content over to pirates. Which is ironic because I think that sort of behavior encourages pirating.

So it's nothing you did, nothing is broken, it's functioning as Netflix wants it to. It'll be the same with all of the other providers.

[-] narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 23 points 1 month ago

OP is talking about YouTube and I can watch 8KUHD just fine on Linux.

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You're right, subbed in Netflix for some reason - but Youtube TV though acts in the same way, I don't believe they allow anything > 720. Free youtube is different, paid Youtube TV will throttle

[-] Midnitte@beehaw.org 5 points 1 month ago

Does changing the user agent work?

Pretending to be Chrome on Windows seems easy enough

[-] Zamundaaa@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 month ago

Yes, there's an addon for Firefox that gives you Netflix 1080p without any downsides, probably just by changing the user agent for Netflix.

Really shows how utterly useless the restrictions are.

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