Reviews for h264ify
h264ify by erkserkserks
Review by Bullsquid
Rated 5 out of 5
by Bullsquid, 6 years agoI have a 2014 MBP with a Haswell CPU that supports h264 hardware acceleration, but doesn't support vp9.
Before this extension, 1080p60 VP9 playback would cause high CPU usage and loud fan noises, but now I can watch 1080p60 h264 in silence, and even 2x speed works fine.
The only downside is that quality higher than 1080p is not available in h264 on YouTube, but that's ok since I couldn't play anything higher than 1080p reliably anyway.
Before this extension, 1080p60 VP9 playback would cause high CPU usage and loud fan noises, but now I can watch 1080p60 h264 in silence, and even 2x speed works fine.
The only downside is that quality higher than 1080p is not available in h264 on YouTube, but that's ok since I couldn't play anything higher than 1080p reliably anyway.
223 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Bruno, 12 days agoMelhorou a reprodução de vídeo do YouTube no meu notebook antigo. Agradeço aos desenvolvedores.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Cristian Salinas, 18 days ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Nocturne, 20 days agonot sure when "no longer" remark appeared, but accidentally finding out it hides 2/4K quality makes it not worth for me anymore.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14357865, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by su7, 3 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 18571964, 4 months agoKills that pesky AV1 but it's a shame VP9 was caught in the crossfire as YouTube preforms much worse trying to broadcast VP9 as H.264. Just use Enhanced h264ify.
- Rated 5 out of 5by NBA20, 5 months agoYouTube now defaults to AV1. The extension was last updated 6 years ago, so it still only blocks VP8/VP9.
EDIT: After changing this setting to false in about:config it works: media.av1.enabled - Rated 5 out of 5by Roma Gromov, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by AndyF, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17856593, 5 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Craig, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Miłosz, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17159369, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13504848, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by spayder26, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18655312, 10 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Kakyouin, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Neleot, a year agoPerfect. Got an i5 6300hq, was having ~50% CPU usage while watching 1080p@60fps. With this i got 25-30% CPU usage. Thank you!
- Rated 5 out of 5by SineWave, a year ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by SeriesE233, a year agoA must have for old laptops with no VP9 hardware decoding support. Just make sure that you can only watch videos up to 1080p.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Lord Fong, a year agoGreat improvement, in terms of keeping my laptop much cooler. Great extension. 👍