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I'm finding that the video quality setting on Youtube videos only has the options "Auto" and "360p". My browser is Firefox 37.0.1 and I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64 bit, and my motherboard chip-set is Intel 965GM (I believe) and is using Xorg open source driver.

Additionally, I have higher quality options available in the dedicated Youtube application from the Ubuntu software center, however I would prefer to use my browser.

Any advice on how to enable higher quality settings would certainly be appreciated!

sudo lshw -class display returns:

*-display

       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary)
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 0c
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
       resources: irq:43 memory:f6e00000-f6efffff memory:e0000000-efffffff ioport:efe8(size=8)



*-display
       description: Display controller
       product: Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (secondary)
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2.1
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.1
       version: 0c
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:f6f00000-f6ffffff
Mudit Kapil
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Tom Boynton
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Head to about:config page and check if the following keys are set to true:

media.mediasource.enabled
media.mediasource.mp4.enabled
media.mediasource.webm.enabled

After that, install the packages gstreamer1.0-libav and gstreamer1.0-plugins-good with

sudo apt-get install gstreamer1.0-libav gstreamer1.0-plugins-good

Restart Firefox and go to https://www.youtube.com/html5. You should see something like the following image:

Screenshot of HTML5 support in YouTube

This solution worked for me and I didn't have to install any third-party software such as FlashPlayer or Firefox Extension. I've came up with this solution by looking at the Arch Linux Wiki > Firefox Tweaks > Enable Additional Media Codecs.

Ian Liu Rodrigues
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My browser is Firefox 37.0.1 and I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS I have numerous quality options available ranging from 144p all the way up to 1080p in the browser. All I've ever needed to do is install Adobe Flash plugin from the software center here:

flashplugininstaller

If this solution doesn't work for you, drop a comment letting me know and include the output I requested and I will edit my answer.

Mudit Kapil
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Elder Geek
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Using flash player isn't recommended by firefox anymore, you should be using the standard html5 player. I had the same problem and found the solution on ubuntuforums.

Go and check Youtube HTML5 support. If you find most of them are marked as not available (red exclamations) then that's your problem.
Solution: 1.Open a new tab and type about:config in the address bar.
2.Firefox will give you a warning that its not safe and to be careful. Proceed.
3.Search for media.mediasource.enabled and change its value to true (double clicking works).
4.Search for media.mediasource.webm.enabled and change that to true too.
5.Recheck the above youtube link. Most of the options should be enabled now and more video qualities should be available too.

Mihir Gadgil
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That is because Flash player is not supported for Firefox in Linux any more or at least the latest version.

To solve your problem you can either use Google Chrome or Chromium-browser with Pepper Flash Plugin.

If you still want to use Firefox then do the following steps

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:skunk/pepper-flash
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pepflashplugin-installer
sudo mkdir -p /opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/pepflashplugin-installer/libpepflashplayer.so /opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install freshplayerplugin
Maiwand
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You can try adding an extension/plugin for FireFox named "Youtube Flash Player".

It will definitely solve your problem.

kos
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PiBhatia
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Actually google automatically define this according to you internet speed. There is nothing to setup manually by users.

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