Use decodingInfo's powerEfficient property when picking streams #6061
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* development: (153 commits) Migrate FtTimestampCatcher to the composition API (FreeTubeApp#6064) Translated using Weblate (Polish) Added functionality to export a single playlist (FreeTubeApp#5779) Fix video player displaying a vertical scrollbar when context menu outside player container (FreeTubeApp#6075) Fix use of deprecated Invidious route on the videos subscription tab (FreeTubeApp#6057) Apply active FreeTube theme to shaka-player menus (FreeTubeApp#5986) Bump sass from 1.80.4 to 1.80.6 (FreeTubeApp#6071) Bump mini-css-extract-plugin from 2.9.1 to 2.9.2 (FreeTubeApp#6068) Translated using Weblate (Vietnamese) Bump webpack from 5.95.0 to 5.96.1 (FreeTubeApp#6069) Translated using Weblate (Vietnamese) Bump sass-loader from 16.0.2 to 16.0.3 (FreeTubeApp#6070) Bump lefthook from 1.8.1 to 1.8.2 (FreeTubeApp#6067) Bump the eslint group with 2 updates (FreeTubeApp#6066) Bump youtubei.js from 11.0.0 to 11.0.1 (FreeTubeApp#6072) Migrate PasswordSettings and PasswordDialog to the composition API (FreeTubeApp#6036) Add some missing jsdoc comments, add jsdoc eslint plugin (FreeTubeApp#6048) Fix shortcut for macOS setting shortcut in video page (FreeTubeApp#6054) Use decodingInfo's powerEfficient property when picking streams (FreeTubeApp#6061) Translated using Weblate (Afrikaans) ...
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Use decodingInfo's powerEfficient property when picking streams
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The MediaCapabilities
decodingInfofunction can be used to query Electron/the browser if it supports playback of a certain audio and video combination and whether it thinks it can do it smoothly (without dropping frames) and power efficiently (the spec doesn't list any specifics but at least in Chromium whether the stream can be played with hardware acceleration is considered, at least according to my research). At the moment FreeTube just tells shaka-player to prefer streams that can be played smoothly (it always filters out unsupported streams). This pull request also tells it to consider the powerEfficient property.shaka-player picks the best one for each video quality/resolution option, so even if the API predicts that all 4K streams on a video will play dreadfully on a specific device, at least one of them will still be included. That means that users can't come up with complaints about missing quality options because of this :).
Testing
Unfortunately in this case I haven't been able to test the impact, as my device supports hardware accelerated playback for h264, VP9 and AV1.
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