Youtube does this sometimes when your device only supports some codecs. If they have encoded the high quality videos into AV1 and your TV doesn’t have a hardware decoder, you’ll only get the compatible codec options listed.
I think there’s a setting somewhere to enable stats for nerds that lets you troubleshoot this as much as you can outside of hooking a debugger up to it.
Based on the GUI, I think this may be a TV?
Youtube does this sometimes when your device only supports some codecs. If they have encoded the high quality videos into AV1 and your TV doesn’t have a hardware decoder, you’ll only get the compatible codec options listed.
I think there’s a setting somewhere to enable stats for nerds that lets you troubleshoot this as much as you can outside of hooking a debugger up to it.
I think you called this, or at least you came closest. See edit #3 in post.