In youtube, There are just 360p and 720p options .(no 240p,480p and 1080p)
Solution 1
HTML5 is usually better than Flash (particularly security wise), just Youtube's implementation uses Media Source Extensions, which is available in Firefox but disabled by default currently (EDIT: in recent Firefox this should no longer be a issue (since version 44) - IF you have the appropiate codecs installed on your system):
- Why you can’t play 1080p or 480p YouTube HTML5 videos in Firefox anymore - Nov 5 2013
- no option for 1080p youtube - Jan 25 2015
- How to get 1080p in Youtube’s HTML5 player in Firefox (on Linux) - Jun 29 2015
To fix it, basically go to about:config
and:
- ignore the warranty dragons
- set the
media.mediasource.enabled
&media.mediasource.webm.enabled
entries totrue
The YouTube HTML5 player enabling page should look at minimum like this:
The more blue things the merrier
Then sit back and enjoy 1080p playback (if it doesn't need to buffer for half a hour due to broadband bandwidth like mine does :)
If you need to enable MSE & H264, you should be able to do so using the method suggested here in about:config
:
- Create a new boolean key called
media.mediasource.ignore_codecs
and set it to 'True' - it may now work so check https://www.youtube.com/html5 - If it does not work yet, do the following:
All should then work (does for me with Firefox Beta AND ffmpeg available... for ffmpeg on 14.* releases try this question):
EDIT: In Firefox 43 at least, doing the above may break the HTML5 player. There seems to be other issues (atleast with Firefox's useragent), but anyway if it breaks try setting media.fragmented-mp4.gmp.enabled
to false
(source)
EDIT: again in Firefox 44 (with the default FF useragent) some issues may occur, though for me it shows a error about HTML5 videos when actually becuase videos have been blocked for other reasons (e.g. copyright). I am now forcing HTML5 with this addon
Another edit: now doesn't seem necessary on fresh profiles, possibly due to https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/44.0/releasenotes/#new
Solution 2
the problem is with the YouTube HTML5 player, I had the same problem and fixed at by installing flash plug-in. then go to this link and choose to disable the html5
player if it's still the default.
Afterwards, it should look like this:
Solution 3
It can also be caused by the lack of H.264 codec support on Firefox.
Installing the FFmpeg plugin for GStreamer solved this problem for me:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mc3man/gstffmpeg-keep
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
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Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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al0s almost 2 years
A couple of days before, everything is working perfectly good. But After last Ubuntu update -also flash player has updated- (I just think that was occurred after update but maybe not) I can not watch 1080p, 480p and 240 videos in youtube. Actually there is no option just 360p and 720p. I tried to reinstall both Firefox and flash player but nothing change. I thing this problem just related with youtube. Because I can watch 1080p videos from vimeo.com and other websites. Please help me.
A picture from https://www.youtube.com/html5
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RonnieDroid almost 9 yearsyourube html5 player still has some problems @wilf
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user3169 almost 9 years@Wilf For me, I get this problem only on Ubuntu 14.04 and FF40, but Windows 7 with FF40 is fine, and Media Source Extensions are active.
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Wilf almost 9 yearsMSE works on my Fedora testing build of Firefox 40 (my current ubuntu machines are mainly servers, can't test :), it will show as enabled (bottom left) box here if it is. Enabling
media.mediasource.enabled
andmedia.mediasource.webm.enabled
seem enough. -
al0s almost 9 years@RonnieDroid thank you for your reply. But I can't find a option to disable html5 player.
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RonnieDroid almost 9 yearsIt will be use the default player, not disable HTML5 player. @al0s
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RonnieDroid almost 9 yearsDid you try to clean firefox cach? for me it worked just as i installed flahsplayer-plugin.
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al0s almost 9 yearsI actually use @Wilf' s solution. Flashplayer-plugin has been installed for long time ago in my system.
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RonnieDroid almost 9 years@al0s up-vote his answers, and don't mark my answer as the correct one, because it didn't help you. thanks.