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YouTube uses lower quality options on browsers running on Arm-based systems — misreporting as an x86 CPU appears to be a widespread browser fix (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 10 points 11 months ago

My by now rather ancient rk3399 board can hardware-decode both at 4k 60Hz. Which has nothing to do with the fact that it's aarch64, but that Rockchip included a beast of a VPU (it was originally designed for set-top boxes).

How about, dunno, asking the browser what kind of media it would prefer?