On 18-03-2021 11:37, Andy Burns wrote:
> Deloptes wrote:
>
>> I am not sure what formats I have tested. The issue was definitely in
>> youtube video - could have been format related
>
> It seems to default to VP8/VP9 codec whenever I take notice

Yes. However, it is still possible to request h.264 streams. For
browsers, you might need a plugin like "h.264ify". It could be that the
RPi modified version of Chromium has that built in. The next link in the
chain is if the browser will recognise the h.264 stream as such and
offload it to the hardware decoder. Probably not if it's not the RPi
amended Chromium...

The alternative is to use youtube-dl and pipe the output to omxplayer,
e.g. I have this saved which used to work but haven't tried it in years,
really:

youtube-dl -f 96 -o - 'https://youtube-url-goes-here' | omxplayer -b -r
--timeout 100 -I --no-keys pipe:0

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