Quality / resolution selector in live streams

[justanidea]

I know somebody told that the quality selector is useless for lives because ot set automaticaly the 'best' quality, but i dont agree with that : when i start a live on Newpipe I have a shitty quality most of the time, whereas I can watch 720p 60fps lives on twitch... So we should have an access to set manually the quality, or maybe choose in settings a default quality (like for videos)

[karyogamy]

Confirmed. Apparently, the bandwidth metering that controls the adaptive quality selection requires the livestream to have at least 10 seconds of buffer before it upgrades the quality to the next available level. Since many livestreams have a very short buffer duration (i.e. 2 seconds), the quality change just never happens. I'll push a fix to #1226 once I've experimented with different timing parameters on the metering.

[justanidea]

Thank you :3

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[ghost]

+1 for this feature request, would like to choose my live stream quality when I watch it like on YouTube.

[ghost]

It is confusing not to know current resolution (IF one care)

As walk around there could be indication of current resolution.

[AudricV]

Please test #7260

[jcperil]

Any update on this? Default quality seems quite high which is unfortunate for someone with a daily limit on their mobile data plan. :(

[opusforlife2]

I know an app that's a fork of NewPipe

It's not. Completely separate app.

[iAdesanyaDaniel]

@AudricV welldone Boss
I wanted to put this in a feature request then I found this open issue

🤔 The option to choose the resolution is available if we access YouTube via the Web

Maybe they are using a hidden parameter... How can we find out Sir?