If you are one of the owners of Apple computers that support 4K resolution (above left), you have certainly encountered unpleasant problems in the form of playing videos via the YouTube service. Despite that Macbooky or iMacs from production Applu have a perfect display with high-quality resolution support, you can't just watch 4K videos on YouTube. Of course, only if we are talking about the default Internet browser Safari. The 4K resolution is nothing new in the world of video and photography. Nevertheless, Google blocks this exclusively anti-oriented option Safari. So if you own an iMac or another Apple computer that has 4K support, via Safari you simply won't watch any video on YouTube with a higher resolution than, say, 1440p. How is that possible?
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This fact intrigued me as an iMac user, so I started a little research. Since 2017, Google, which owns YouTube, has switched to a standard in the form of the VP9 codec. It is a specific video format that provides an increase in resolution without an increase in bandwidth. Through the application of the VP9 code, according to developers and engineers, it will be possible to achieve HD and even 4K resolution, using half the bandwidth. In practice, this means that with the same bitrate, videos in VP9 appear to be of better quality than in the previous case, when the h.264 standard was widely used.
The catch, however, is that as long as you run any 4K video in Safari, you won't even get a menu to set a resolution higher than 1080p or 1440p. Of course, even in this case, the videos are in HD, but on a larger screen, the video in a similar resolution is not very high quality. Images that are basically configured in 4K on YouTube are paradoxically in the browser Safari you will not use in 4K. One solution to this problem is to simply run the video using a different web browser. On a Mac, you can play a 4K video from YouTube or via Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox or Opera. A lot of people don't have a problem with this solution, but compared to other browsers, it offers Safari functions, which for example in Chrome You just can't find it.
If you use a browser to play YouTube videos Safari, you cannot achieve a higher resolution than 1080p or 1440p.
Maybe it's just my personal preferences, but in 99% of work with an iMac or MacbookI am currently using Safari. So the first point can be a more comfortable and familiar environment, which users would not like to change just for ordinary videos on Youtube. However, if we get into this sphere, we will find many positive elements that other browsers (in most cases) do not have. The very fact of perfect cooperation Safari with the new macOS Mojave, it results in clear and simple options, thanks to which you can start the "picture in picture" function, for example.
Through the browser Chrome you simply click through to 4K or 8K, of course depending on the resolution of the video itself.
However, if you want to work your way up to playing 4K or even 8K videos from Youtube via Safari, there is a slight (though not very convenient) workaround. Safari has an extension in the form of "Player for YouTube", which forces the browser to use the Flash Player instead of the HTML 5 player. In addition, you can play with the display of annotations or similar distracting elements in the settings. However, using this extension is not stable and does not guarantee high-quality video playback in all cases.
We'll see how long this "4K war" between Google and Apple to continue, but apparently we will not see a change in the next few months. However, this is not an issue that would prevent users from playing 4K or 8K videos on YouTube. Videos in 4320p resolution or, if you prefer, 8K, are not that widespread on the service, but you would certainly be pleased to watch one of the available images without having to unnecessarily click between browsers. If you already buy a computer or monitor that supports high resolution, then it is logically expected that you will also receive high-quality resolution. However, the current situation is "zero 4K" pre Safari.
Is there any way to play 4K videos from YouTube on Apple TV 4K? The native app only supports HD. Thanks
I feel like those Google morons are doing this on purpose. The problem is Safari, problem with Apple TV 4K and to this day it still happens to me that even on my iPhone, content is often played in the "automatic quality" of 720p.
Apple should come up with its own video sharing service, it should also come up with its own social network. When I see how YouTube works and what's happening around FaceBookWell, I see a lot of potential.
It also annoys me that in the native YouTube application on Apple TV 4K, we won't enjoy 4K videos.
Due to the fact that the article is not in the journal, I did not read it, but I will respond to the title (written in Czech).
4k videos currently on sale macbookIt is not supported in PRO, because the hardware cannot handle it either - after starting such a video from YouTube, for example in Chrome, the video sometimes freezes. If I select a 4k video with 60 frames per second, it cuts out a lot and is unwatchable…….. The processor cannot handle this, it starts to heat up so much that the fan spins at full speed.
You can see how you explained it nicely, it's a shame at the beginning, you slightly devalued the post
Maybe a dumb question, but can't it be a connection? occasional fluctuations with such a high data flow could easily cause these jams.
The fact that the article is in Slovak shouldn't be a problem, right? And that it would Macbook Pro it didn't handle 4k is a lie! I have the base model connected Macbook Pro 2016 (13 inches without TB) to 4k monitor and in Google Chrome I play 4k videos without any problems. I see the problem more in the absence of a codec in Safari, which is used when playing 4k.
What is a "base" please? If I select a YouTube 4K video with 60ftp, it is unwatchable even on the built-in monitor. Even if I reduce the video to a small "window". The result is the same both on chrome and in opera. PS: It's not the speed of the connection - the video is shown on the indicator with sufficient advance.
You don't write in Czech, it uses diacritics. Sorry like.
inguisto base is the base, even my dalmatian knows that... oh yeah
It's interesting that I read as fast as if it were in Czech and I really didn't live in Czechoslovakia. Today is really full of idiots who can't even read a piece of Slovak text. Sorry as…
Of course, I can do it just like you, but in principle I don't do it because I'm on a Czech website. When I go to the Slovak website, I will of course not complain. In addition, the article is misleading because the title is in Czech, so it is impossible to know before opening that it is in Slovak. It's like if you bought dark chocolate in a store (according to the description) and after paying and unpacking it, you would find out that it is white.
For 4K go to MB Pro 15 with Retina Chrome I probably won't give.
But just out of curiosity, I started the iMac from 2009 (old Core2Duo, just a few months ago there was a new SSD drive and I increased the RAM to 8GB), on which Google Chrome i have It does support 4K, but of course the poor iMac already does nesthe was running However, when I played the same video in FullHD, in Chrome it was quite good, whereas in Safari despite the old iron, it went beautifully smoothly.