Some YouTube Videos Are Stuck In Low Quality

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Sometimes on YouTube there are videos that are stuck in low quality (480p or less) and there is no option to change it. I have tried disabling all of my extensions (aha music identifier, dark reader, uBlock origin, vidIQ, and google hangouts) and the brave shields, but nothing worked. I had some brave experiments enabled, so I reset them to default, but still, nothing happened.

It seems to happen on videos randomly, and pretty rarely, so I can’t really reproduce them.

With Brave(480p):

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FyyrWRWXOP867×492 450 KB

With Chrome(1080p):

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KbKO4P0Omk862×489 742 KB

I am using 1.12.14 Chromium: 83.0.4103.97 (Official Build) nightly (64-bit) and Windows 10 OS Version 2004 (Build 19640.1)

It has also happened with other YouTube videos at as low as 144p (A.K.A. Unwatchable)
Refreshing the page doesn’t work either.

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Hi @superscooper, Welcome to Community!
Does it happen to the same video after refreshing the page?
Can you share the url to the video you’re demonstrating in the gif?

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I managed to find @superscooper’s video url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ2DjEpbOIU
The resolution can go up to 1080p on this video for me on Brave, with shields on but I don’t have any extensions installed.

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