Enhanced-h264ify Alternatives

enhanced-h264ify reviews and mentions

• Worth putting a SSD with Linux in a 12 years old laptop ?
  2 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 21 Apr 2023

  Probably it uses hardware acceleration for Netflix but YouTube serves a newer format for which hardware acceleration is unavailable. The h264ify browser extension could help. https://github.com/alextrv/enhanced-h264ify is a fork of that with some customization available.

• Those of you using older Thinkpads, are you using it as a thin client?
  1 project | /r/thinkpad | 29 Mar 2023

  It does help to keep to 720p video and have a separate gaming PC. The "x264ify-enhanced" browser extension (a fork of a discontinued extension) is useful for restricting Youtube to cpu-friendly codecs.

• Enhancer for YouTube™ extension alternatives?
  1 project | /r/firefox | 11 Mar 2023
• Stream Quality "Problem"
  1 project | /r/lilypichu | 13 Jan 2023

  https://github.com/alextrv/enhanced-h264ify Give it a go. I think you're making the issue out to be bigger than it is, but if this fixes it then great.

• To owners of the Surface Go 3 (especially Pentium model!)
  1 project | /r/SurfaceGo | 31 Aug 2022

  For YouTube, Google has been trying to move everything to AV1 codecs, which is more bandwidth efficient for them. But these processors don't support AV1 on the GPU, which makes the CPU do the work, which results in power consumption and lag. If you go to YouTube with say a Roku or something that doesn't support AV1, YouTube automatically falls back to VP8 or VP9, which the roku can transcode. So I use an extension in both Edge and Chrome called enhanced-h264ify. In its settings I block VP8 and AV1 for the YouTube domain. When I load a video then, it forces YouTube to use VP9, which uses more bandwidth (especially at 4K), but it's entirely on the GPU and makes for a buttery smooth playing session. https://github.com/alextrv/enhanced-h264ify

• Hardware acceleration not working in any browser, working with VLC
  1 project | /r/debian | 19 Aug 2022

  I just remembered that some websites (like youtube) try to play video formats which are not supported by older integrated GPUs - and I have an extension installed (https://github.com/alextrv/enhanced-h264ify) which makes youtube use other video codecs (that are supported by the GPU). Looking at this table, it's possible that you're having that issue as well (youtube by default likes to use vp9)?

• Changing formats in Youtube's web player.
  1 project | /r/AV1 | 17 Jul 2022

  Take a look.

• My old X220 is now retired and my new T480 is prepared to take over the lead !
  1 project | /r/thinkpad | 23 May 2022

  If you make sure the hw decoders are working, it'll do 1080p/1440p h.264 just fine ;) On Linux you need to set it up to make it work in Chromiums - on Windows it just works. For Youtube you need something like https://github.com/alextrv/enhanced-h264ify

• A Firefox/Chrome extension that blocks video codecs you have chosen on YouTube
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Mar 2022
• YouTube 60fps is really laggy on Chromebook R13
  1 project | /r/chromeos | 2 Jul 2021

  Use https://github.com/alextrv/enhanced-h264ify and block vp8, vp9 and av1.

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