[Bug] YouTube. image Quality Mismatch

[JVS-XII]

Checklist (Your issue will be automatically closed if you delete this part)

• I make sure that there are no existing issues - open or closed - which I could contribute my information to.
• I believe this feature request will benefit more than 10% of users, not just myself.

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** Description

• *Apparently the problem is inherited from the upstream app; observed even when high image quality is selected

• *Source of the problem is the web version of the site; official mobile app is devoid of this question

• What I noticed:

• video thumbnail, channel avatar, channel background loading in low [painful to look at] resolution

• Solution - replace values ​​in URL.

I suggest 8K as the highest screen resolution available on the mobile device market.
The server gives the best quality in any case without spoiling the image by stretching

• Places in URL for replacement:
• avatar - =s160
• background - =w1060
• video thumbnail - maxresdefault.jpg instead of hq720.jpg

[InfinityLoop1308]

No we have no relation to NewPipe in extracting.
We already selected the highest possible resolution. where do you observe low res images?

[JVS-XII]

No we have no relation to NewPipe in extracting. We already selected the highest possible resolution. where do you observe low res images?

It may look different on your device, but I see it everywhere. Random example from trends:

[JVS-XII]

addition: apparently the 'maxresdefault.jpg' trick doesn't work with sddefault.jpg and hqdefault.jpg (found in older videos). gray 404 thumbnail is loading.

[InfinityLoop1308]

We already used s160 for avatar so there is nothing to do. For the banner, the issue is it got scaled down. I removed the related code and it should work fine now.

[JVS-XII]

We already used s160 for avatar so there is nothing to do. For the banner, the issue is it got scaled down. I removed the related code and it should work fine now.

Can you give a detailed answer about the avatar? I don't understand why the values ​​there can't be changed. After all, the image would be nicer to look at if it were at least 1060. In my screenshots, the avatar is terribly blurry.

[InfinityLoop1308]

Simply put, the avatar resolution you can get on the channel page versus the video page is different - this is a YouTube limitation.
On the channel page, the best result you can get is 160x160, which we are already using.

[JVS-XII]

Got it.

For the banner, the issue is it got scaled down. I removed the related code and it should work fine now.

Sorry, a small clarification. Do you mean channel background image or video title image?

[InfinityLoop1308]

Sorry, a small clarification. Do you mean channel background image or video title image?