Hi Charles:
Here is a screenshot of a video as I see it on youtube.com. I have clicked
on the settings icon to reveal the settings menu. One of the options is
'quality'. I've highlighted the location of the settings menu and the
quality option.
[image: Screen Shot 2020-11-01 at 11.49.34 AM.png]
That said, as I google for issues around Firefox and YouTube, I see that
firefox may not be able to support all of the codecs required for every
video, as it only has open-source codecs, not proprietary ones. As a result
firefox is not always able to play all resolutions. You may be able to fix
this by installing additional packages (see e.g.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1246875 ). Or you may find that
another browser works better for this purpose.
On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 12:51 PM charles meyer <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Hi Marijane and Tim,
>
> I use a PC - Windows 10 with the Firefox browser.
>
> I don't see any cog wheel or word Settings in FF to adjust video quality.
>
> Tim, thank your for confirming that the "words" in the YT video are not
> clear in 380p.
>
> I don't know how to change the view to 1080p in FF nor how I can ensure
> that what I download remains in 1080p and then when I watch it offline it
> remains later in 1080p.
>
> Perhaps, there's a VLC Media Player setting to set which will display the
> YT video in 1080p?
>
> If you find you use a Media Player you think is better than VLC and
> it;'snot a MAC-only application, what media player do you use?
>
> Thank you so much!
>
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