What happened to 1440p support in YouTube app?

[nikusak]

I am 99% sure it was possible to view 4K Ultra HD videos in 1440p on an iPad with the official YouTube app, wasn’t it?

No more - everything is capped at 1080p!

It’s same with Safari on Mac, I think it supported 1440p for a while too, but not anymore. Chrome works. Apparently it’s because some new codec Google is using which isn’t supported by Safari...

Just wondering why they don’t ship the codec in the YouTube app? I’m assuming the support for the most common video formats is implemented in iPad’s HW, but would an SW codec hit the battery that badly...

(Sorry if this has already been discussed, search didn’t work at all)

 

[jerwin]

Supposedly, Apple believes that implementing VP9 would expose it to patent liability.

http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=115970

 

[nikusak]

Thanks.

The article is dated to early 2017. Am I just imagining that I viewed 1440p videos on my iPad Pro just a few months ago?

 

[komatta]

I noticed that yesterday too... kinda disappointing.

 

[max2]

This sucks.

 

[goobot]

Supposedly, Apple believes that implementing VP9 would expose it to patent liability.

http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=115970

The article only says 4K is gone not 1440.

 

[jerwin]

The article only says 4K is gone not 1440.

Same underlying issue. Google reencoded the videos as vp9-- to save bandwidth and storage costs.