Only 720p playback

[Termuellinator]

As of this morning, QTWebflix will only show 720p :(
It seems the userAgent is blocked form 1080p, as my using firefox results in 1080p, but overriding useragent to "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) QtWebEngine/5.11.2 Chrome/65.0.3325.230 Safari/537.36" (as QTW seems to use, according to the shift+ctrl+alt+d overlay) also yields 720p.

Hate this BS from netflix -.-

[gort818]

I do not seem to have any issues.

[Termuellinator]

Ok, it's getting weird, now it's working for me again, too O_o
I've waited the whole day to see if it's just a problem at netflix...

[Termuellinator]

so, i've now waited a full 24h since it occured again for me (and stayed that way) - can you reproduce it now? O_o

[gort818]

Working fine for me

Note that some shows and movies 1080p will not be available, what are you trying to watch?

[Termuellinator]

At least now it isn't fixed for me after your try ^^
It isn't the show, like i said it works fine in Firefox (with https://github.com/vladikoff/netflix-1080p-firefox that i think you use too?) as long as i use the FF63 UserAgent.
If i set the UserAgent to "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) QtWebEngine/5.11.2 Chrome/65.0.3325.230 Safari/537.36", it also only gives me 720p, so it definitively is the UA.
There has been a similar situation with FF61 (or was it 62?) where using the normal UA causes 720p, but setting it to the previous version worked fine - so to me it looks like netflix is filtering/blocking the UAs from getting HD.
I'm just astounded that it works for you - maybe the filtering is not done on all series?
Does https://www.netflix.com/watch/80184619 give you 1080?

[gort818]

Can you try using the FF63 UA in qtwebflix?
I cannot test at the moment but I definitely will later today.

[Termuellinator]

Is there any other way to set the UA besides re-compiling according to #12 this post?

[gort818]

I just updated a test branch adding command line options

Options:
  -h, --help                   Displays this help.
  -v, --version                Displays version information.
  -p, --provider <provider>    Set content provider eg. netflix.com
  -u, --useragent <useragent>  change useragent eg. "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT
                               10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like
                               Gecko) Chrome/67.0.2526.73 Safari/537.36"

https://github.com/gort818/qtwebflix/tree/commandline

./qtwebflix -u "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:63.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/63.0"

[Termuellinator]

At least i learned how to clone a non-master-branch ^^
But it is just getting weirder.
For the show i linked above, the FF63 UA (the same i have in FF) doesn't change anything, still 720p.
I tested another one (black mirror), that one gives me 1080p with FF63 UA (both in QTW and FF) but only 720p with the normal QTW UA (both master and commandline branch).
Additionally, using the QTW UA in FF no longer causes 720p on either of those shows.
So it kinda seems either something changed or my first test with setting the UA in FF was flawed.

[gort818]

The show you linked I am only getting 720p with FF63 ua and regular, Black mirror I get 720p with regular and 1080p with FF63 ua.

I have no idea. I actually cannot use that 1080p extension as it has extra stuff that I cannot implement.
I had to make my own changes.. It is a real pain.

I am worried that 1080p won't be around much longer for us.

look at this thread truedread/netflix-1080p#30

and some shows still working fine 1080p with the regular ua like Narcos Mexico.

[Termuellinator]

i really hope things sort out or Netflix gets some kind of sanity and just delivers 1080p for browsers other than IE...
i can't understand why on earth they would do something like that, it's not like TV-users or users of the Windoze-UWP-App deliver more income or something...

[gort818]

For the moment a lot of netflix originals are still 1080p but check messing around with different useragents and see which works best.

I do not know the must have some sort of deal with microsoft.. let's enjoy it while it lasts.

[ryanmusante]

@gort818 with Microsoft making plans to move Edge to being chromium based, would Edge come to Linux? And would the 1080p compatibility not be an issue?

[gort818]

@ryanmusante just read that article! was going to post a link https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/12/06/microsoft-edge-making-the-web-better-through-more-open-source-collaboration/

Maybe should be interesting. Unless 1080p will only available on the windows10 app

[gort818]

I have updated the playercore again, might want to retest some videos.

[pamposzek]

Hey, suddenly it started working for me. Checked today on movie Killer Elite and it shows 1080p. Also on some kids cartoon too. From my perspective, it magically started working. Good stuff.

[Nuc1eoN]

Hey I am just watching netflix with the latest version and it seems I am also getting only 720p. Can I give you any other valuable info?

Version: 6.0011.853.051
Esn: NFCDFF-LX-EQ12YEM8R34FEHJQD0ECDY4MNPKUAU
PBCID: 6.iQtul7RYu_lMNUombYb9TqmYuSwV6Qo6nRMPz6zjTz4
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) QtWebEngine/5.12.3 Chrome/69.0.3497.128 Safari/537.36

MovieId: 70293591
TrackingId: 155573560
Xid: 15596969768980 (15596969768980)
Position: 832.961
Duration: 3598.000
Volume: 100%

Player state: Normal
Buffering state: Normal
Rendering state: Paused

Playing bitrate (a/v): 96 / 485 (1280x720)
Playing/Buffering vmaf: 90/90
Buffering bitrate (a/v): 96 / 485
Buffer size in Bytes (a/v): 3167678 / 10735264
Buffer size in Bytes: 13902942
Buffer size in Seconds (a/v): 240.105 / 247.034
Current CDN (a/v): c023.dus002.ix.nflxvideo.net, Id: 55725 / c023.dus002.ix.nflxvideo.net, Id: 55725

Audio Track: de, Id: A:1:1;2;de;0;, Channels: 2.0, Codec: audio/mp4;codecs=mp4a.40.2
Video Track: Codec: video/mp4;codecs=avc1.640028 (avchigh)
Timed Text Track: de, Profile: dfxp-ls-sdh, Id: T:1:0;1;de;1;1;

Framerate: NaN
Current Dropped Frames: 0
Total Frames: 12362
Total Dropped Frames: 1
Total Corrupted Frames: undefined
Total Frame Delay: undefined
Main Thread stall/sec: DISABLED
VideoDiag: readyState=4,currentTime=832.961314,pbRate=1,audioBuffered=48.000,audioRanges=816.853333-864.853332,videoBuffered=38.789,videoRanges=828.160666-866.949416,duration=3597.3855

Throughput: 70228 kbps

DFR: {"720":[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]}

[gort818]

@Nuc1eoN Damn netflix changed something again.. I will see if I can get it work again but I cannot promise anything :(

[gort818]

There was an update to widevine libs give it another test

[gort818]

I just tested Jessica Jones season 3 and after a few minutes I got 1080p.

[gort818]

see issue #72