Why YouTube Is Missing Quality Options? How to Solve It?

On YouTube, all kinds of original videos with high quality are provided freely for people to stream online for having a good time. There are many different YouTube videos offered on the platform such as some free movies, TV shows, anime, online lessons, music videos, news, and so on. People can go to YouTube at anytime they like when they have good network connection for streaming the videos online.

For providing good quality playback experience to suit different people's needs, YouTube also offers various quality options for us to choose according to the Internet speed. But sometimes, some users may find that the quality options are missed when they want to switch to another quality for streaming the YouTube video online. Why this would happen?

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Part 1. YouTube Is Missing Quality Options on These Browsers

Although YouTube offers different streaming resolutions for people to choose for watching the YouTube videos online, but actually, some browsers do not support the new added video formats and quality that YouTube provides. Therefore, on this browsers, you will find that there are only a few options that you can choose to play the YouTube videos online.

In other words, the newest video quality options YouTube provide can only be used on some mainstream browsers, in addition, both the version of your browser and the operating system of the device can't be too outdated.

Here are some of the browsers that support the latest high-quality video resolutions that YouTube offers. If you want to stream the YouTube video with higher quality, you may need to update your browser or change to these browsers that support more YouTube video quality.

NOTE: Pay attention that the video resolutions may not be supported on the videos that are newly uploaded.

* Google Chrome (all operating system)
* Microsoft Edge
*Safari (Mac OS X 10.10 or newer)
* Firefox (Windows 7 or newer / Mac OS X 10.10 or newer)

So if you are using these browsers but still find that some YouTube video quality options are still missing, check whether the system of your device is also updated to be compatible with them. But if you are not using the browsers mentioned in the list, try to download one for enjoying YouTube videos with more quality options!

Part 2. Download YouTube Videos to HD Quality for Playback Offline

If the YouTube videos are missing quality options when you stream them online, a little trick to play them in HD quality is to download the videos for offline playback.

Here I would like to introduce you a reliable online video downloader - VidPaw, which allows users to download YouTube videos in HD quality. Except for YouTube, VidPaw also supports to download videos from more video sites such as Facebook, Instagram, etc. to various output formats, including MP4, 3GP, WEBM. In other words, with VidPaw online video downloader, you can quickly solve the YouTube video missing quality options issue, but still can enjoy the videos with HD quality.

Next, I will show you how to download YouTube videos to HD quality in three different but simple ways.

Way 1. Download YouTube Videos by URL

This is the most traditional method to download YouTube videos with online video downloader. All you need to prepare is just the URL of the YouTube video.

STEP 1. Copy the YouTube Video URL

Open the YouTube video that you want to watch with HD quality but it is missing quality options. Copy its URL from the address bar.

STEP 2. Paste URL to VidPaw

Enter vidpaw.com in a new tab and go to VidPaw. Then simply paste the URL of the YouTube video to the download bar, and click "Download".

STEP 3. Choose HD Quality

VidPaw then will show you some output selections for saving the YouTube video. From the list, you can select HD quality and your favorite output format for it. After that, hit "Download" to get the YouTube video.

STEP 4. Click Download Again

If the page navigates to a web player and the YouTube video doesn't start downloading, you need to click the icon in the lower right corner of the video and hit "Download" again.

Way 2. Download YouTube Video with VidPaw Extension

By adding VidPaw Extension to your browser, you can add a download button to each YouTube video for more convenient downloading them. Follow the guide to do it now.

STEP 1. Install Tampermonkey Extension

At first, what you need to use for keeping the VidPaw Extension to run smoothly is an extension helper, named Tampermonkey. Just select the appropriate one according the browser you are using now.

Google Chrome Tampermonkey
Mozilla Firefox Tampermonkey
Safari Tampermonkey
Microsoft Edge Tampermonkey

STEP 2. Install VidPaw Extension

Now you should click "VidPaw Extension" to add the extension to your browser as well. When this is done, you can successfully add a download icon to the YouTube video.

STEP 3. Download YouTube Video in HD Quality

Now go back to the YouTube video that is missing quality options. Refresh the page and you will find a VidPaw icon is set below the video. Just click on it and select output quality for saving the video. Then you only need to wait for the download process to be completed.

Way 3. Download YouTube Video By Changing URL

This method is the simplest of the three, but it has limitation that it can only be used to download videos from YouTube.

STEP 1. Open the YouTube video you want to enjoy with HD quality, but YouTube is missing quality options for choosing.

STEP 2. Change the URL of the video by adding "paw" after "youtube".

STEP 3. Press Enter key and navigate the page to VidPaw download page. Select an output format and hit "Download" to save the YouTube video in HD.

Do you go through all the steps on how to download YouTube videos in HD quality with VidPaw? There is no denying that downloading the YouTube video in HD quality is the best method to solve YouTube missing quality options issue, which can also help people to stream the video more fluently without meeting other YouTube errors. Therefore, when you also meet this issue, try to use VidPaw to resolve the problem.