cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 
davidking
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

[Tip] Increase Stream Quality on Chrome

Check out this thread over on Reddit to see a tip on how to increase stream quality on Chrome. It works by changing the type of video stream Stadia uses :slightly_smiling_face:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Stadia/comments/eiyfhg/trick_to_increase_stream_quality_on_chrome_force/

Credit to Reddit users u/AquaRegia and u/snakerjake for finding this and u/ColonialReddit098 for sharing!

4 Kudos
11 Replies
Mad_Dog_Bravo
Community Member

@davidking : Awesome post/link, I especially like the stream monitor script, works really nice!  Thanks.

Kudos appreciated if deserved.
0 Kudos
Valynor
Founder
Founder

Chrome already uses VP9 with Stadia, you can see for yourself on chrome://media-internals 

It's also the standard on YouTube for quite some time now. 

0 Kudos
davidking
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@Valynor You can see from that topic I linked to and the one below that’s its not defaulting to VP9 for a fair few users: https://www.reddit.com/r/Stadia/comments/eimw7/tampermonkey_monitor_your_stream/
0 Kudos
Valynor
Founder
Founder

As far as I remember from the WebRTC/Stadia tech video from Google, Stadia is based on the VP9 codec (and targetting AV1 in the future).

 

Edit:
Source: https://youtu.be/avtlQeaxd_I?t=1072

0 Kudos
cptsmithy
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

You're right, but it seems like they may be using H.264 as a fallback for sorts. Stadia was definitely using H.264 for me until I reinstalled Chrome.
0 Kudos
Avrila
Founder
Founder

Thanks for the info. Is it also possible to increase the resolution?
0 Kudos
davidking
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@Avrila No unfortunately not, seems Chrome is limited to 1080p at the moment.
0 Kudos
MaxDamage
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

That is incorrect. I stream in 1440p with pro subscription in chrome and can stream at 4k but too sluggish.

All you need is a higher res monitor or an extension.

0 Kudos
gwhizofmdr
Community Member

Thank you for this great thread. Really enjoying Stadia when I can find time.

We are trying to use Chrome for WebRTC communication and are hitting these same limitations on resolution and codec.

Is there another forum where we could bring these tips/learnings, and how they would apply to WebRTC ?

 

Thank you!

0 Kudos
Pheenix
Community Member

You can just use "Stadia plus" Extension for Chrome to force VP9 with one click and 4K mode, too (if you are pro member)

1 Kudo
brunocalmon
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

You can just install Stadia+ chrome extension and this will do it for you, over other stuff.

 

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stadia%20-extension/bbhmnnecicphphjamhdefpagipoegijd

1 Kudo