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How come Youtube does not display anything above 720p?

snsking

snsking

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I have Safari 9.0.2, and I have noticed that Youtube no longer displays anything above 720p as a supported resolution. It seems to be an issue and Im wondering if anyone has a fix?

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Not sure what it could be that is causing this. Google Chrome shows all available options
 
bigpoppamac31 said:
With Flash player I can get any resolution the video will play at. But with HTML5 I can only get up to 720p.
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I have flash player installed but I still only see 720p. Is there something I have to enable?
 
snsking said:
I have flash player installed but I still only see 720p. Is there something I have to enable?
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Which OS are you on? I'm on Mavericks and just did a clean install and now I only get up to 720p on YT. Before I could view up to 4K if it was available.
 
bigpoppamac31 said:
Which OS are you on? I'm on Mavericks and just did a clean install and now I only get up to 720p on YT. Before I could view up to 4K if it was available.
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Software OS X 10.9.5 (13F1507)

That one^ and yeah same here. Not sure what has happened.. Maybe its a push from Google to get us to switch from Safari to Chrome?
 
bigpoppamac31 said:
From what I've heard this issue is not present in Yosemite or El Capitan.
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What's odd is that I just randomly lost support for anything above 720p. I don't have flash player installed (until today) and even after the latest Safari updated, I could still view 4K.
 
Well maybe YT has switched to all HTML5. I was curious about that cause I have "click to flash" installed but YT video load and play right away as HTML5 files.
 
We are still on Mavs, 10.9.5

It seems to be affecting Mavericks users
 
Unfortunately for us Mavericks users we have to either update to Yosemite/El Cap or install Flash alongside YouTube Center or ClickToFlash and force to use Flash instead of HTML5 (as HTML5 is the default one)
 
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