Playing and downloading quality choice (codec, container, resolution, fps)

[Nalajalan]

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Feature description

First of all, thanks a lot for your amazing app !!!

My "problem" : Playing and downloading quality choice is quite strange for me, I'll try to be clear :

About audio :

-download let you choose which codec/container and bitrate you want, whatever default audio format is chosen in settings, which is for me a good behaviour

-background playing use default audio container "webm" or "m4a". I don't know which default bitrate is played and it's not possible to change it. It's not possible to change bitrate while background playing either. That's for me a strangely missing function. I don't know either why default format setting is not codec/container "ogg" or "m4a" like in downloading but "webm" and "m4a" (webm is a just video container and don't tell the codec)

About video :

-download let you choose only which bitrate you want, according default video format chosen in settings. Default format setting is container "webm" or "mp4" but didn't say the codec that is the relevant information. In youtube mp4 contains H264 or AV1 and webm contains VP9. In terms of ratio quality/size we have mp4/AV1 > webm/VP9 >mp4/H264. It means that sometimes mp4 is better, sometimes VP9 is better. That's for me a very strange choice.

-playing and flying window use default video resolution and default video "format" (container) chosen in setting (but no default codec). We can change resolution during playing but only in the default container. Strangely in my example high resolution playing is only possible in webm, though is it possible to download high resolution in mpeg4...

-there is a 2K/4K enabling in settings (disable by default), I'm not sure why it is useful but i'm sure the default will be better on.

My proposition :

-Replace "format" by "codec" ogg, aac/m4a, H264, VP9, AV1 in default settings and in downloading windows.
-Add default audio bitrate in settings
-Allow codec-bitrate changing during background audio playing (this function is not the most important and need perhaps more ergonomics thinking than the others)
-Let all codec-bitrate change possible during video playing and before downloading whatever default settings are chosen
-Remove 2K/4K enabling in settings or at least let it enabled by default (However I could live without that)

There an example : jdownloader quality choosing menu for the same video is quite very much clear (ok that's a desktop version but the choosing list can be the same)

Thank you a lot !!!

Why do you want this feature?

Essentially easier choice of video codec without have to change default settings and compare video sizes for picking the one we want

Consistency between audio and video settings

Choosing audio codec/bitrate while background playing

Additional information

Thanks a lot !!!

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