Interesting. In wonder why the 2160p does not show on my 2015 15" rMBP with dGPU?
BTW, are you in full screen on the youtube?
BTW, are you in full screen on the youtube?
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Why doesn't Safari show me 4K options on YouTube?
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Ya I'm viewing it in full screen on Youtube's site (no embed). The video in the OP only goes up to 1080p60 options for me, however.
Didn't bother to see if Chrome is the same way since I stick with Safari on macOS.
edit - 4K also works for me on YT's site when not fullscreen'd.
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This clip I can watch in 2160p both embedded in the forum and on YouTube page. Not so with previous clips.
Seems there's some issue with Safari not able to show 4k 60FPS. Chrome may be using a flash player whereas Safari will be using HTML5, which may get around this. Either way it only seems to effect older 4k videos, as newer ones seem to user better encoding and work fine.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7095223?start=0&tstart=0 there's a few posts on the matter.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7095223?start=0&tstart=0 there's a few posts on the matter.
Really? Quite surprising then that I'm able to view 4K on Youtube in Safari.
But we can watch 4K of some videos when they are embedded into a page like on this site... yet the same video on youtube.com will only show 1440p. Seems more like a Goolgle/youtube issue than a Safari one..
I know the display itself isn't 4K. I thought the issue here is the fact that the options for higher than 1080 or 1440 aren't showing up for the OP at all.
That may be Safari just down scaling the video. It seems like Safari has an issue since the videos play in 4k in the middle of a page or full screen with Chrome and Firefox.
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I even get the 4K option for this video (but not the first one) on my 2010 MacBook Pro (which can't play it).
So what you say, implies that tools like 4K Video Downloader are simply transcoding the stream on the fly?
Try it - what you will get downloaded is normally a MP4 file containing H.264 video stream.
At least that's what I get when I try the "The Best Tech Under $100 - January 2017!" or the "[NEW] Panasonic LUMIX GH5 4K 60P Video HAND-CUT by Griffin Hammond" videos.
That of course does not exclude the possibility, that google provides 2160p stream in many codecs.
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Same here.
Not so apparently. I seems to vary by YT video. I am on Safari on my 2016 13" Touchbar with the LG 5K and I can open this video (not as an embed) and play it in 4K. Other videos mentioned in the thread would not do that.
Hopefully the Safari 'issues' with YT are solved soon. I mentioned this in another thread but playing 4K videos in Chrome leads my CPU to go into overdrive on a TB 13" MBP. Playing the exact same video in 4K via Safari barely has the CPU breaking a sweat.
I'm finding Chrome to be too hardware intensive lately (especially when I was on my old mid-2009 MBP) and have moved to using Safari as my main browser for the past few months, no regrets.
I'm finding Chrome to be too hardware intensive lately (especially when I was on my old mid-2009 MBP) and have moved to using Safari as my main browser for the past few months, no regrets.
Chrome's never been particularly well optimised for MacOS. I only use it only my Mac if neccesary, but Safari as main browser.
Same issue seems to affect AndroidTV.
The Lumix "Hand-Cut" video is only available in up to 1440p. The "Best Tech under $100" on the other hand, I can watch also in 2160p.
Apple is aware of the issue...
Went into the Store to purchase LG 5k display, had a friendly genius hook up the new MBP 15 to the display, and Safari 5k was unplayable via YT (SnowMonkey 5k video.)
Senior Management and Senior Genius bar dude came out and created the case right away. Apparently, according to the Genius, Safari should be able to play 5k.
Went into the Store to purchase LG 5k display, had a friendly genius hook up the new MBP 15 to the display, and Safari 5k was unplayable via YT (SnowMonkey 5k video.)
Senior Management and Senior Genius bar dude came out and created the case right away. Apparently, according to the Genius, Safari should be able to play 5k.