Change HTML5 video’s quality from JavaScript

Question

In YouTube, we can change the quality of the video from a dropdown like 360p, 144p, 240p, etc. Can we do the same with HTML5 video element from JavaScript?

Answer 1

Manual selection of quality is just a matter of:

1. Saving the currentTime in a variable
2. setting the video src to the URL of a different video (with the same content at a different quality)
3. Setting the currentTime to the value in the variable
4. Playing the video