Hi-Res YouTube Hacks


	Hi-Res YouTube Hacks

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4-29-2008 10:56 AM

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      <H3>Hi-Res with One Click</H3>
      <P>YouTube now offers some videos in <A target="_blank" href="http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/03/youtube-tests-higher-resolution-videos.html">multiple resolutions</A>. If you're watching a multiformat video on the YouTube site itself, you can call up different resolutions by adding a format code to the end of the URL. Adding "&fmt=6" bumps the resolution from 320x240 to 448x336 and doubles the audio sample rate from 22.05 to 44.1kHz. And adding "&fmt=18" (iPod mode) raises it to 480x360 with stereo sound. This mode also uses h.264 encoding for better video quality. </p> <P>If you're signed in to YouTube, you can specify that it always serve you the highest-quality videos. But <A target="_blank" href="http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/2825/how_to_get_high_resolution_youtube_videos_with_bookmarklets">Tech Recipes</A> offers another approach: drag this bookmarklet — <A href="javascript:window.location+='&fmt=18';">YouTube Hi-Res</A> — to your browser toolbar. Whenever you click it, the bookmarklet will add "&fmt=18" to the page's URL for you.</p> <P><EM>Wired</EM> <A target="_blank" href="http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Watch_Higher_Quality_YouTube_Videos">explains</A> how to add the format codes to the standard YouTube embedding code. Note that the hi-res videos take longer to load and are more prone to stalling during playback. <EM>—David Battino</EM></p> </DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/40B31D6E-611A-400B-ACC9-D181705D2E89/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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