Youtube Tweak

AndrewT · Post by **AndrewT** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 10:36 pm

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.

Matatak · Post by **Matatak** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 10:53 pm

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?

AndrewT · Post by **AndrewT** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 10:59 pm

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.

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 11:03 pm

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...

mattims · Post by **mattims** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 11:18 pm

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?

AndrewT · Post by **AndrewT** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 11:29 pm

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

Fatz · Post by **Fatz** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 4:53 am

I'm guessing the first one is the better quality video? seems like the clarity is a bit better.
Good find.

D3V1L · Post by **D3V1L** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 6:37 am

dont make any difference to me either

Subafury · Post by **Subafury** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 12:02 pm

that sux i see no difference

Post by **Alex** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 1:55 pm

the top one seems to look better for me??

alex

AndrewT · Post by **AndrewT** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 7:08 pm

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.