Support for improved 144p

[phly95]

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It seems you use the flip-phone version of youtube's 144p (3GPP), however, youtube has improved compression and offers much better looking 144p (not sure about bitrates though, but compare 144p in newpipe compared to 144p on youtube's website). It would be nice if you offered the improved codec version along with a choice in audio bitrate for people who are data constrained (16-64k audio would work), but would like better video quality.

A compression server that converts to 16k opus would be cool, but I'm sure that would require too many resources on the newpipe server, unless youtube already offers it.

[utack]

There is a "ready to go" muxed version, which is really sh*t
You probably mean this one with the "flip phone" version:
17 3gp 176x144 small , mp4v.20.3, mp4a.40.2@ 24k

Other 144p options are video to choose from as separate stream
278 webm 256x144 144p 118k , webm container, vp9, 30fps, video only
160 mp4 256x144 DASH video 133k , avc1.4d400c, 30fps, video only
330 webm 256x144 144p60 204k , vp9.2, 60fps, video only

and two small audio versions that might go with it
139 m4a audio only DASH audio 48k , m4a_dash container, mp4a.40.5@ 48k (22050Hz)
249 webm audio only DASH audio 59k , opus @ 50k

Example video
"flip phone 144p": 3.2MB
10fps and mono audio

"diy 144p" vp9+50k opus: 6.2MB
30fps and stereo audio

It probably makes sense to choose the 30fps vp9 and the smallest opus audio, as any phone out there can decode vp9 at such low resolution in software and quality is immensely better than the "flip phone version"
But it is also roughly twice the size, which can add up quickly for people who really want the absolutely lowest file size to stream

[mauriciocolli]

The thing is, opus is supported only in Android 5.0+ (from android official guide), there are extensions for playing opus in every device (in ExoPlayer), but I really don't want to include it in the app, as it'll requires native code.

Currently, the chosen audio stream that we play together with a video only stream, is the one that matches the preferred format (in the settings) and have the highest bit rate available.

And some videos have the 139 stream (a very low quality audio m4a), I'm thinking in using it when the user selects such low qualities (144p), but that is just an idea for now.

[utack]

@mauriciocolli sorry to hijack this issue, but does "webm" use opus on devices that support opus playback or always vorbis?

[mauriciocolli]

@utack no it doesn't (you can see the list here), but I was thinking in doing that.

[utack]

would be nice, since lately it is not just the better codec, but also getting more bitrate than AAC as well

[phly95]

Huh, 144p60 is an option. That would be a very interesting combination to see in action. I wonder if it would be possible to use the 24k m4a stream along with these interesting resolutions. Maybe quality needs to be a nested menu where you select video quality > FPS > Format > Audio format > bitrate . The issue with offering this much choice however could mean confusing both the users and developers though, so I'm not quite sure how viable that would be.

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