Znighty
March 30th, 2008, 02:58 PM
High quality videos and YouTube videos are usually considered two separate entities. YouTube is notorious for its low-quality videos, even then it is the world’s most popular video streaming and video sharing website. Probably the reason for the low-quality videos on YouTube is its architecture. First the uploaded videos are converted to flash and then their FLV files are streamed through players which produces the resulting low quality video effect.
Google OS recently discovered a trick that indicates that Google might be secretly working on improving the quality of some YouTube videos.
The trick is to append &fmt=18 at the end of URL of the YouTube video you are watching. This will make YouTube download a high-quality video version of that particular video. The high quality video version will of course be bigger in size and therefore will take more time to load. It shall be encoded at 480?360 with an MP4 format. This trick will not work on all videos but for some it works like a charm.
Example:
Lets say you have a YouTube video with the following URL
Now copy Past the link into your Google webpage for exemple where you will have
http://www.google.com/ replace it whith
FFOW vs Kylie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXlTqHx5R0s&locale=en_US&persist_locale=1&fmt=18
For cod 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Vzh0lNxGXM&fmt=18
Now u can see better video throught Youtube
Hope you enjoy ;)
Google OS recently discovered a trick that indicates that Google might be secretly working on improving the quality of some YouTube videos.
The trick is to append &fmt=18 at the end of URL of the YouTube video you are watching. This will make YouTube download a high-quality video version of that particular video. The high quality video version will of course be bigger in size and therefore will take more time to load. It shall be encoded at 480?360 with an MP4 format. This trick will not work on all videos but for some it works like a charm.
Example:
Lets say you have a YouTube video with the following URL
Now copy Past the link into your Google webpage for exemple where you will have
http://www.google.com/ replace it whith
FFOW vs Kylie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXlTqHx5R0s&locale=en_US&persist_locale=1&fmt=18
For cod 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Vzh0lNxGXM&fmt=18
Now u can see better video throught Youtube
Hope you enjoy ;)