some titles have 540p (shitty) resolution

[userofryzen]

https://www.netflix.com/title/80058477
https://www.netflix.com/title/80201565

There are a few examples ( modern family is other more) about Netflix not showing more that 540p resolution ( at least in Linux) and it happens with the addon enabled and disabled.
Is it netflix capping Linux or is it a bug in many titles and for windows too?
in the case of danish girl is worse because I have 0.2 Mb of bitrate, it's worse than downloading a pirate dvd file quality and putting it in the tv with a usb

[TheGoddessInari]

As far as I can tell, it's the same on Windows (extension off or on) with those two titles on my connection.

I'm not 100% sure about Linux support because Netflix actually checks the platform when iterating the license requests, and there's not (yet) Chromium Edge on Linux.

Try the "Test Patterns" Season 01, Episode 01. You can try it with 5.1 and max bitrate selected possibly. See what results you get with/without addon.

[userofryzen]

test patterns gives me 1080p resolution yeah, but nor for the titles I posted before. If you disable this addons and put this titles in windows you are getting 540p like me?
Are you using firefox on windows, not?

[userofryzen]

ctrl+shift+alt+D is a shortcut for a behind menu

[TheGoddessInari]

Like I said, those titles are locked to 540p for me on Windows also, even on a clean Firefox install.

Either the title isn't available in HD, or it's related to the pandemic measures Netflix is taking.

If you can get 1080p on test patterns and other supported streaming titles, it does sound like the extension is working as intended.

[userofryzen]

Okey. I have been testing. In windows I am getting 1080p with add-on and 720 without it in the same titles as in Linux I am getting 540p with and without it....
We can confirm that netflix is cutting Linux features with netflix. There is no other thing to think.

[lu5jzz]

I'm using Ubuntu 18.04.4 and in firefox 76 this extension work perfectly.

[userofryzen]

I'm using Ubuntu 18.04.4 and in firefox 76 this extension work perfectly.

Have you tested what bitrate and resolution have for example the Danish girl?
I don't know if it's the extension that can do something more or its Netflix but for me there are a few films and series that are playing so so bad

[userofryzen]

I'm using Ubuntu 18.04.4 and in firefox 76 this extension work perfectly.

You can test the bitrate and resolution in each program with control+alt+shift+D key combination.
You can have in test patterns 1080p amd in other places of netflix having 240, 540 or whatever they want

[lu5jzz]

I'm using Ubuntu 18.04.4 and in firefox 76 this extension work perfectly.

Have you tested what bitrate and resolution have for example the Danish girl?
I don't know if it's the extension that can do something more or its Netflix but for me there are a few films and series that are playing so so bad

In my account of netflix not see de film "Danish Girl", I live in Argentina and, perhaps, some film don't available here. But I know some film aren't available on 1080p, only in 720p ¿ok?

[userofryzen]

The problem is that it s not available In LINUX because in windows it's available...

[lu5jzz]

I'm using Ubuntu 18.04.4 and in firefox 76 this extension work perfectly.

You can test the bitrate and resolution in each program with control+alt+shift+D key combination.
You can have in test patterns 1080p amd in other places of netflix having 240, 540 or whatever they want

[userofryzen]

I'm using Ubuntu 18.04.4 and in firefox 76 this extension work perfectly.

You can test the bitrate and resolution in each program with control+alt+shift+D key combination.
You can have in test patterns 1080p amd in other places of netflix having 240, 540 or whatever they want

Yes yes. For me test patterns gives me 1080p.
The problem here is that in other titles while in windows I get 1080p top in Linux I am getting 540 p resolution.

[TheGoddessInari]

Perhaps I wasn't clear on my end somehow. The behavior I'm seeing on Windows or Linux, in the US, even with the extension off, is that the linked titles are restricted to 540p. Full stop.

Realistically, this is unlikely to have anything to do with the extension, as the core appears to be handling Linux correctly, insofar that there isn't an Edge on Linux to return a specific string, yet, and 1080p definitely works.

In the US, on two different ISPs I've tried, neither allows going above 540p by any means for those two titles linked in the original post. It works on the overwhelming majority of titles.

This is the same case with Chrome on Windows & Linux as well, so it's more likely to do with whatever regional restrictions Netflix has.

For some reason, the link for "Game Night" originally resolved to Avatar: The Last Airbender, which also suffers from the 540p problem. "Game Night" is not available on US Netflix, so I can't speak to that.

[ghost]

Excuse my interruption but I thought it might help to remind you that netflix recently agreed to reduce streaming quality in order to preserve bandwidth during the covid-19 lockdowns.

Personally I've noticed quite a few movies in 540p since then, with or without the extension. A recent example is Blade Runner (The Final Cut): https://www.netflix.com/watch/70082907

I'm in Australia so I don't know if it will behave the same way wherever you are, as Aussie netflix is pretty terrible and our library is extremely limited.... but hopefully this helps.

[TheGoddessInari]

I discovered why this is the case (I think).

Upstream Chrome-based netflix-1080p used to get Edge manifests when possible, but stopped doing so in July 2019.

Without the Edge manifests, it appears locked to 540p on some titles (like The Danish Girl).

I'm working on a fix for this.

[userofryzen]

Oh. Perfect. Pls say the news jajaj

[TheGoddessInari]

Looks like manifests can currently only be acquired on Windows and MacOS (at least until Edge for Linux releases), but there appear to be other issues with it: mostly when using H.264 instead of VP9.

I'll probably split that up and make it a toggle, but it can't affect Linux until/unless Microsoft releases Edge for Linux, and Netflix supports it.

[TheGoddessInari]

Netflix appears to have generally dropped the Edge/ESN/ChromeOS special case in cadmium playercore and on the backend, which is why on some titles/episodes it suddenly stopped working within the last ~48 hours as there was no more Edge-specific case to fall back to.

Edge >v80 (and some other platforms) are still able to get 1080p on the "restricted" titles, but from what I've been reading, it's done some other way now that nobody seems quite sure about.

At the moment, I'm following Netflix's lead because there's not much else to do until there's better research and more information about what exactly needs to be done to get the restricted titles fixed.

[ghost]

Thanks for your work on this :) As per #5 I'm now seeing 1080p on at least some titles :)
...but still getting 540p on some, eg https://www.netflix.com/watch/80185760

[userofryzen]

Looks like manifests can currently only be acquired on Windows and MacOS (at least until Edge for Linux releases), but there appear to be other issues with it: mostly when using H.264 instead of VP9.

I'll probably split that up and make it a toggle, but it can't affect Linux until/unless Microsoft releases Edge for Linux, and Netflix supports it.

will see what happens next,..

[userofryzen]

Netflix appears to have generally dropped the Edge/ESN/ChromeOS special case in cadmium playercore and on the backend, which is why on some titles/episodes it suddenly stopped working within the last ~48 hours as there was no more Edge-specific case to fall back to.

Edge >v80 (and some other platforms) are still able to get 1080p on the "restricted" titles, but from what I've been reading, it's done some other way now that nobody seems quite sure about.

At the moment, I'm following Netflix's lead because there's not much else to do until there's better research and more information about what exactly needs to be done to get the restricted titles fixed.

no idea what happens with netflix so.. but I think for download the edge manifester is needed VMP that thanks to google is not avalaible in linux..

[DistantThunder]

Hi, sorry if this is the wrong thread but even on test video, I'm getting 540p with this addon enabled.
Any clue?

I'm on Arch Linux with Firefox 87.0.