Youtube-like Resolutionselector

Question

Hi

I want to add a dropdown to give the user a chance to select different video resolutions.

Anyone who has an idea how to make it?

kind regards

Simon

Answer 1

Hi Simon,

in general it shouldn´t be a problem to implement a resolution selector. Basically it´s more a matter of visual implementation than a big technical issue.

*but:*

The problem is what happens after selecting a new resolution. As of today the only possible reaction of the player will be to restart the video from the very beginning which totally sucks and which is very different to the way the YT selector works. There the video seamlessly switches over and starts buffering the new variant.

Right now this can´t be achieved with HTML5 in a cross -browser and -format way because of the lack time offsets because of the lack of streaming because of the lack of ... uhm... don´t know.

I am very interested to get the player working with the mentioned offsets but this is still a little bit tricky.