Bug#888636: epiphany-browser: Can't get quality above 360p on Youtube

[Byron]

On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 20:04:38 -0700 Byron <byron.sharman at skybeam.com> 
wrote:
 > Package: epiphany-browser
 > Version: 3.22.7-1
 > Severity: normal
 >
 > Dear Maintainer,
 >
 > First I should make it clear that although I am running Stretch, I 
downloaded
 > and installed Epiphany from Flathub in order to get the latest 
stable version
 > (3.26.5.1, to be exact.) In case you need to know, I'm using a 
1280x1024
 > screen.
 >
 > I went to Youtube and watched any video. On the version of Epiphany 
which comes
 > with Debian (3.22.7), I can get up to 720p resolution on videos that 
are shot
 > in 1080p or 4K, but never above 720p. On Epiphany 3.26, I'm unable 
(as of yet)
 > to find out how to get a resolution past 320p.
 >
 > I tried both Xorg and Xwayland with the same result. I'll try more 
as more
 > ideas slowly come to my brain.
 >
 > I do a lot of media consumption so it would be nice to have sharper 
video.
 >
 > Thanks for your time. =)
 >
 >
 >
 > -- System Information:
 > Debian Release: 9.3
 >   APT prefers stable-updates
 >   APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
 > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
 >
 > Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
 > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
 > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
 > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
 >
 > Versions of packages epiphany-browser depends on:
 > ii  dbus-user-session [default-dbus-session-bus]  1.10.24-0+deb9u1
 > ii  dbus-x11 [dbus-session-bus]                   1.10.24-0+deb9u1
 > ii  epiphany-browser-data                         3.22.7-1
 > ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                     3.22.0-1
 > ii  iso-codes                                     3.75-1
 > ii  libavahi-client3                              0.6.32-2
 > ii  libavahi-common3                              0.6.32-2
 > ii  libavahi-gobject0                             0.6.32-2
 > ii  libc6                                         2.24-11+deb9u1
 > ii  libcairo2                                     1.14.8-1
 > ii  libgcr-base-3-1                               3.20.0-5.1
 > ii  libgcr-ui-3-1                                 3.20.0-5.1
 > ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                            2.36.5-2+deb9u2
 > ii  libglib2.0-0                                  2.50.3-2
 > ii  libgnome-desktop-3-12                         3.22.2-1
 > ii  libgtk-3-0                                    3.22.11-1
 > ii  libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18                   2.16.6-0+deb9u1
 > ii  libnotify4                                    0.7.7-2
 > ii  libpango-1.0-0                                1.40.5-1
 > ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                           1.40.5-1
 > ii  libsecret-1-0                                 0.18.5-3.1
 > ii  libsoup2.4-1                                  2.56.0-2+deb9u1
 > ii  libsqlite3-0                                  3.16.2-5+deb9u1

Hmmm, while trying out Arch I'm using 3.26.6 and the resolutions are 
fine. Looks like it was some flatpaking issue or something, feel free 
to close the bug. =)
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