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Compare Chrome extensions: h264ify vs 'Improve YouTube!' 🎧 (for YouTube & Videos)

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User count 1,000,000+ 300,000+
Average rating 4.56 4.51
Rating count 1,119 6,723
Last updated 2019-09-09 2024-04-02
Size 30.72K 651.26K
Version 1.1.0 4.826
Short description
Makes YouTube stream H.264 videos instead of VP8/VP9 videos YouTube, tidy + smart? Youtube video youtube player size youtube color ad skip speed volume channel skipper tags playlist hide
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Try h264ify if YouTube videos stutter, take up too much CPU, eat battery life, or make your laptop hot.

By default, YouTube streams VP8/VP9 encoded video. However, this can cause problems with less powerful machines because VP8/VP9 is not typically hardware accelerated.

In contrast, H.264 is commonly hardware accelerated by GPUs, which usually means smoother video playback and reduced CPU usage. h264ify makes YouTube stream H.264 videos instead of VP8/VP9 videos.

Github: https://github.com/erkserkserks/h264ify

Set your YouTube Video Player, Category Filter-rules, Themes, Layout, Style once, today & enjoy that for years to come! With our extension you have 80+ useful, unique features🧰🔧. To make your video experience & content discovery a whole lot better & save you a lot of clicks & time. ✔️ Open-source & non-profit since 2012! ✔️ Applies most settings with no reload⌛(unlike other Youtube-Extensions) ✓ Video playback features for embedded videos & all sites (we are also working on Facebook, mobile m.youtube, Netflix, Twitch, Vimeo) 🍃 lightweight: You can expect everything to work as expected
✓ Offline (privacy🔒)(We can't care about what video you watch, just that you have a better time).

🎖️Press Reviews: "Enhances YouTube in meaningful ways" (5/5⭐ https://www.gHacks.net/2021/03/26/improved-youtube-enhances-youtube-in-meaningful-ways ) We are now "Recommended by FireFox"!🦊 ONLY 109 extensions🏆) "Might be the best YouTube Extension Ever" (https://LifeHacker.com/this-might-be-the-only-youtube-browser-extension-youll-1846575110)

✔️ ⋮⚙️⋮ 85+ features for YT (some can only be found here (🦄we pioneered)

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