IINA is a good player.
You can even play videos from YouTube (via youtube-dl)
But how to choose videos quality?
By default youtube-dl uses best possible quality. If video is 4K – you'll get 4K. Sometimes it is overkill for notebooks.
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You can configure youtube-dl inside of IINA.
To set up max qulity of youtube videos:
Go to Settings / Network / Youtube-dl
Write in
Raw optionssectionformat="bestvideo[height<=?1440]+bestaudio/best[height<=?1440]"Where
1440is maximum height that you want (it equals to 1440p).This parameter tells player:
bestvideo[height<=?1440]— to pick best video up to width=1440px+bestaudio— mix it with best audio available in source./best[height<=?1440]— if something goes wrong - take just best video&audio pair (under 1440px of height)
Restart IINA
You can view more details about format selction in youtube-dldocumentation
Also you can read documentation for IINA & youtube-dl
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This format spec will break whenever you play a video on a service that does not split videos (which is actually most of them). Better stick a `/best[height<=?1440]` at the end. – phihag Dec 26 '17 at 12:08
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@phihag OK! fixed answer – ckesc Dec 26 '17 at 12:13
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1Hint: If you don't want to use bandwith for video when listening music in the background, (radio, mixes, playlists) use `format=bestaudio` (or whatever you prefer :). – Radek Benkel Sep 18 '20 at 15:40