Are there any YouTube frontends that currently support resolutions
higher than 1080p?
reddit / selfhosted

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sturgeon01 · 2023-12-11 23:46

I've been trying all the popular YouTube frontends, and as far as I
can tell none of them currently support 1440p/2160p resolutions. Piped
claims to on the GitHub page, but when using it those resolution
options do not appear for me. When searching this issue, I see year-
old references to a setting to enable higher resolutions, but that
option does not seem to exist anymore. Viewtube has this currently
listed as an issue, and as of a few months ago the developer said they
were working on a new media player to support 1440p/2160p, but it has
not yet been completed. The rest I tried don't even mention higher
resolutions on their GitHub pages, so I assume it's not a priority. Of
course, there's always the various apps to download YouTube videos,
but those aren't ideal as you need tons of space for 4K video and
downloading/processing on the fly isn't really practical.

Is anyone using any YouTube frontends that work with these higher
resolutions right now? Or am I just out of luck until one of these
apps are updated?

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TryNotToShootYoself · 2023-12-12 00:53

I know this is self-hosted and I'm not really answering your question,
but most mobile clients still work. I know revanced works, and I'm
pretty sure newpipe does as well.

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sturgeon01 · 2023-12-12 01:14

Yeah I've been using revanced for years, it works great. My dilemma
though is that I'd really like to move away from privacy-invasive
Google accounts, and revanced requires one to save/sync watch history,
subscriptions, etc with the desktop version. And as far as I can tell,
newpipe does not offer any sort of syncing between devices.