How to Watch High Quality Videos on YouTube
Hutson Hayward wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
Don’t you just hate how low the quality of the videos are on YouTube? I certainly do, but thankfully there is a way to get around the default quality and watch videos in a much higher quality. However, there are catches to this… like everything really. :|
First, I am going to explain how to do this and then I will explain the flaws/catches to it. You start off with a basic YouTube URL, then you add the High Quality code at the end of it: &fmt=18. An example might look like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfSBHJRU9_Q&fmt=18
As you can see, you will get a much higher quality video through the wonders of YouTube.
So far, I have only found 2 flaws / limitations, but the most important limitation is this will NOT work on videos that are encoded from .FLV files before they are uploaded to YouTube. The other flaw is that on some occasions the […]
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