With a fresh installation of Debian 8 (KDE) using Iceweasel I can only play YouTube videos with 360p resolution and lower.
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There is a solution that works with Fedora 20 (https://superuser.com/a/903715/233157) but not with Debian 8. If I apply the proposed changes that are:
- Requesting html5 playback on (Can't post link due to low reputation :/)
- in about:config turning on
- media.mediasource.enabled
- media.mediasource.youtubeonly
- media.mediasource.mp4.enabled
- media.mediasource.webm.enabled
- media.fragmented-mp4.exposed
- media.fragmented-mp4.ffmpeg.enabled
I am able to switch to higher resolutions but the video frame remains black. The sound works fine.
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How can I play high definition videos on YouTube on Debian 8 using Iceweasel?