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Basically that occurs when the video itself is 240p, but YouTube will still encode it in some higher-quality formats (in this case 360p), though with the lower 240p resolution.

Also, regarding WebM, you aren't downloading the single, non-DASH, 360p VP8 WebM format, are you?  That one is lower quality than the h.264 videos because, well, it's VP8 - the previous generation WebM video codec.

If you need more comparisons, find any video of the game BeamNG DRIVE and look at the texture detail when in-motion.

Are you using the MPC-HC v1.7.3 that came with SVP 3.1.6?  If so, then it's no wonder you're seeing such poor performance -  the 32bit LAVfilters bundled with that version of MPC-HC had a very unoptimized VP9 decoder.  Modern versions of 32bit LAVfilters, such as though bundled with MPC-HC v1.7.8 and later, have a much more optimized VP9 decoder.

Alternatively, perhaps it would be better to just include a setting similar to SVPtube to select whether you want h.264 or VP9?  That way you could also take advantage of hardware acceleration if you want.  For non tech-savvy people, you could label the options as "h.264 (better performance(" and "VP9 (better quality)".

Lastly, you're falling for the video equivalent of the MHz myth - more bit rate is only higher quality if the format is the same.  Allow me to link to a post I made on Doom9 showing direct comparisons between the formats:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p … ost1719952

If I de-aged by that much then I'd be a child. (9 months ago I was mistaken for being under 18, and I was 24!)

Random question - what is your nationality?  I don't recognize your accent from your video...

It's not due to buffering because I have had the exact same issue at rare times and I've found a way to make it revert to normal performance levels with 100% success rate.

Simply put, disable GPU acceleration in SVP, and then re-enable it.

To emphesis that it's not buffering, it has occured with an already-downloaded video that is running from a ramdisk, my web browser closed, network utilization at 0%, CPU utilization at 0-1% when video paused, windows update disabled, and SVP and MPC-HC both running from an SSD.

VP9 is available for all resolutions that h.264 is available for.  Consider that it's YouTube's default format and has been for over a year now... in fact the new 60fps 1440p format is only available in VP9.

Here's a lengthy and quite in-depth thread on the subject:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=170682

EDIT: Important thing to note though - not all videos (particularly older ones, especially old videos with low view counts) have VP9 encodings.  However, all videos should have h.264 encodings.

Using the newest (v1.7.9) but with it set to store the settings in a .ini file.  Also I did not run the MPC-HC that I copied from a fresh installation of SVP.

EDIT 2: I launched SVP's own MPC-HC (v1.7.3) one time and it still didn't work.  I went into the settings and disabled "save settings to .ini", clicked OK, changed a couple other options to make sure, and even then the program did not work.

Big problem I found right away - it doesn't support a portable non-installed copy of MPC-HC.  Without this it won't even let me run the SVP setup wizard (which I'm assuming is what would let me tweak SVP's video settings?).  But even then, I'm honestly not really sure why it'd actually need MPC-HC to change any SVP settings...I mean, they're completely separate programs.

Also you may want to make it clear that encoding SVP and/or MadVR videos is not the main purpose of this program - this initially confused me greatly (and I'm even familiar with the program's subject matter!).

EDIT: And only 15 minutes after I downloaded the program installer, the project's page has going missing in action.  I haz a confused...

EDIT 2: Unless it's looking for the MPC-HC that comes with SVP?  Since I use stand-alone newer versions, I actually deleted the "mpc-hc" folder in the SVP program directory...

EDIT 3: I copied the "MPC-HC" folder from a fresh installation of SVP 3.1.6 (ran inside Sandboxie) into my normal SVP folder and even then the program says "MPC-HC not found".

EDIT 4: I have "Max Download Quality" set to 'Max', so why, for YouTube, is it downloading videos in h.264 format and not in VP9 format?  I mean, the video is just going to be re-encoded anyway so we don't really have to worry about VP9 player compatibility...

EDIT 5: Also downloading user videos (not the ones available by default through the program) to the program folder seems a bit odd... I would have expected them to be in either "%userprofile%\Downloads" or even something like "%userprofile%\Documents\Natural Grounding Player"

Oh, that issue.  Another trick to solve it is to just disable GPU acceleration in SVP, but this will obviously give worse performance unless you have quite the fast CPU.

I always found that Complicated introduced more and worse artifacts than standard...

Or are you saying that Complicated + Artifacts masking is less artifact-ridden than Standard + Artifact masking?

It should be mentioned that, when it comes to downsizing, even the highest quality of algorithms will not look noticably different from your typical lanczos or bicubic.

It is in upscaling where the difference in quality can be notable.

Ok, so "Adaptive" does do what I thought it did.

Last question - I know 1.5m is useful for anime, but what does it actually do compared to 2m and 1m, especially for non-fractional integer framerates (2x, 3x, etc)?  Like, would it be a crime if I used it for a normal live-action film?

Your i5-4590 has integrated graphics; you could use that.

(for reference, while it's fast enough for SVP, it may not be fast enough for SVP + MadVR without at least greatly reduced MadVR settings).