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Youtube Tweak
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 10:36 pm
by AndrewT
Hey wanna watch your youtube videos in a better resolution? Try this out, I found it on another forum,
Take the original, for example:
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=RVgf4F5CkTg
and add either &fmt=18 for high-ish def. or &fmt=6 for highest def.
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=RVgf4F5CkTg&fmt=18
Have a look at the two, notice the massive difference in resolution!
P.S. make sure your adobe flash is up to date properly.
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 10:53 pm
by Matatak
i see no difference.....all tho i tried another video and did full screen to see the 'full effects'
must be my adobe flash isn't up to date then
time to look into that
and on another note. i saw on a vid once a little link that said something bout higher quality
and also. how can they improve quality on a video which was uploaded in a very poor quality already?
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 10:59 pm
by AndrewT
yeh, it definitely works, if it doesn't then your doing something wrong.
The videos are uploaded in better quality already, youtube just play them in a highly compressed format by default so they work better for a wider range of people (people with pov-pack internet accounts). Putting the extra code in just allows it to play at slightly higher res. Obviously it will take a bit long to buffer because it uses more bandwidth.
It won't work for all videos and others might not yield a noticeable difference but it's worked fairly well for me so far on most videos.
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 11:03 pm
by El_Freddo
AndrewT wrote:youtube just play them in a highly compressed format by default so they work better for a wider range of people (people with pov-pack internet accounts.
HEY! That's my pero's - hence why I try not to use the internet when at home...
Cheers
Bennie
PS - I'll be trying this at uni when i've got the time...
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 11:18 pm
by mattims
yeah ive seen this trick b4... cant tell any difference between the two clips at all .. flash is up to date .. could it be cause im using firefox?
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 11:29 pm
by AndrewT
I dont think it works when you view clips in their little windows embedded in this thread....try them opened separately in a different browser window when you get videos up straight from youtube.com
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 4:53 am
by Fatz
I'm guessing the first one is the better quality video? seems like the clarity is a bit better.
Good find.
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 6:37 am
by D3V1L
dont make any difference to me either
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 12:02 pm
by Subafury
that sux i see no difference
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 1:55 pm
by Alex
the top one seems to look better for me??
alex
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 7:08 pm
by AndrewT
haha well it works perfectly for me and thousands of other people.
It's the bottom one which looks better (the one with &fmt=18 at the end of the link). As I said, it probably doesn't work when you click on the examples embedded in this thread, you have to do it to videos you are watching directly from the youtube website.