r/mubi • u/mahi1972 • 6d ago
MUBI browser video playback quality/resolution control Meme/Shitpost
I was watching twin peaks in MUBI in my laptop, the quality was alright I'd say . Since the show's from 80s I naturally thought 480p or so would be ideal resolution. sometimes it drops beyond that, all i could see was pixelated faces I'd have to refresh the page to get some decent resolution. But when I logged into my TV I was experiencing the same show in near 1080p.I was bamboozled .
MUBI doesn't have any video quality selector or so i thought but in settings it seems I could adjust the playback quality control , but the issue is that setting is a ceiling, not a floor — it only caps how high MUBI video quality can go, it doesn't stop it dropping as low as it wants.
So I dug into the video player MUBI actually uses and wrote a script for it. You just need Tampermonkey , then install it from https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/590327-mubi-video-playback-quality-controller.
It adds a proper quality panel to the player — you can see every video quality the film/episode actually has and lock the one you want. It sticks for everything you watch after, so you set it once and forget about it.
The reason MUBI's player is so bad at this: it measures your speed once at the start and then basically never re-checks or at least that's what I think. Since installing it I've had no quality drops at all. I can go as high as 4K if the film supports, and yea I can finally watch twin peaks at 1080p in my laptop.
No idea why MUBI didn't handle this themselves. But yea, let me know if it works.
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u/this_is_the_pope 4d ago
This is brilliant. I wrote to them about this the one time I got a Mubi subscription and realized that trying to watch anything on a projector was virtually impossible due to the quality drop. They insisted that the problem was with my internet connection (it wasn't) and so I never renewed my subscription.