enhanced-h264ify
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Choose what video and audio codecs YouTube should play for you
Users
100K
Rating
4.8
Reviews
213
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h264ify
Makes YouTube stream H.264 videos instead of VP8/VP9 videos
Users1MCurrent public install base
Rating4.6Store average score
Reviews1,192Public review volume
Manifest versionV3Extension platform version
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Version2.0.1
ManifestV3
Size31.7KiB
Languages2English / čeština
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Try h264ify if YouTube videos stutter, take up too much CPU, eat battery life, or make your laptop hot.
By default, YouTube streams VP8/VP9 encoded video. However, this can cause problems with less powerful machines because VP8/VP9 is not typically hardware accelerated.
In contrast, H.264 is commonly hardware accelerated by GPUs, which usually means smoother video playback and reduced CPU usage. h264ify makes YouTube stream H.264 videos instead of VP8/VP9 videos.
Note: 4K and 1440p videos will not be available because YouTube no longer encodes those videos in H.264
Github: https://github.com/erkserkserks/h264ify
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Total ratings / reviews1,192Chrome Web Store public rating/review count
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I absolutely love this plugin. Webm or vp9 video playback makes my laptop extremely slow. This plugin solved this issue. Thank you. 5 out of 5. Didn't face any issue so far.
excelente, lo he instalado en una mini laptop acer con procesador intel atom, y a cargado bien los videos, redujo la carga del procesador en un 30%
К сожалению 88 версия хрома теперь зависает. Выличите пожалуйса.
По сравнению нагрузки на ЦП в диспетчере задач, с этим расширением выше 10% не бывает, энергопотребление в основном низкое, бывает умеренное но только в начале запуска видео (качество видео 1080р), в то время когда без этого расширения нагрузка в основном 30%, а то и более бывает (было замечено до 60%) и энергопотребление скачет между высоким и очень высоким. Вывод, ютуб вы там чё ауели? 👿
This app is a real life saver!!! Before, I was using YouTube normally and it would hit up to 98% cpu usage on 1080p and when I switched to this, the cpu usage went all the way down to 10% cpu usage, it's a really good piece of software!
It limits the video quality to 1080p in YouTube, what's the point then? I can do that by myself and have no issues... Plus the videos look worse... Total garbage...
Lo mejor para computadoras antigüitas. Gracias maestro!
Does the job right. Exremely useful for PCs that don't support VP9. It's increases browsing and overall performence by reducing load on CPU. It also increases battery life considerably. I am uninstalling it because I don't need it anymore since my new laptops now supports VP9. but for those that want to block 60fps vids or convert them to 30fps while streaming this is still usefull. Thanks a lot for the great work, devs.
I didn't know about h264ify until it came pre-installed on my Raspberry Pi 4 and got carried over to my Windows 10 PC. My PC is not that great, so this extension works perfectly for me! Videos lag otherwise if I turn it off. My only complaint here is that auto-generated captions just seem to disappear. Other than that, amazing extension for bad computers!
Спасибо автору! Все работает супер!