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| is a little tea pot. Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Carlsbad CA
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+75 Internets | Youtube Trick I received an anonymous tip from, go-figure, anonymous. That if you add "&fmt=18" to the end of any youtube url and it's supposed to play in High-Def. I'm at work right now and my laptop can't handle streaming, but the quality certainly looks a lot better. If anyone wants to confirm for me that'd be great. So derp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=353uPtu87o4 would be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=353uPtu87o4&fmt=18 for high-def. I wasn't given an explanation as to how/why this drastically changes it. I think it might be a setting only available to corporate/ad sponsors? |
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| Registered User Join Date: May 2007 Location: Saint Paul
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+7 Internets | There is a difference, I opened up a window for both links and paused the first second on both and one is much more clear then the other. Also below the "hi def" video there is a link that says "Watch this video in lower quality for faster playback." that you can click so yes, there is a difference in the quality of the videos. |
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| Loves -internets Join Date: May 2002 Location: Ziest
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| nice, noticable differance :-) good little trick
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| Registered User Join Date: May 2005 Location: Atlanta, GA
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+10 Internets | It's very noticeable to me.
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| is a little tea pot. Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Carlsbad CA
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+75 Internets | I'm a little confused too. I was under the impression the quality is ruined during the compression. This line changes the playback I guess? but how is it the quality is improved? is the compression fine and they just choose to downgrade the playback? |
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| Six Join Date: Mar 2006
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Which means btw, that this trick does not make the video's "high-def" but simply the original quality of the post-compressed, pre-youtube file. Last edited by Korioni; 03-17-2008 at 02:18 PM.. | |
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| So there's this plane on a treadmill... Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Southern California
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+20 Internets | It does take noticably longer to load the HD vid, so I'm guessing they store your uploaded video in full quality, but reduce the quality on playback so those who have shitty connections can still watch it fairly quickly. That and it probably uses less bandwidth for them. |
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| Unplayed Namer Join Date: Apr 2004
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| It's not a trick, it's a new setting in the options they added last week-ish. You can enable the option in your account settings on Youtube to "always play high-def version if available" or "always play normal videos". Obviously, normal-mode is enabled by default or for non-members.
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