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Youtube Videos In High-Defintion? Hack Youtube for HD Video Playback

  |  4 years ago   |  

Boy was I happy to find out about this....  If you remember our Online Video Predictions for 2008 post from last year, our first was...

"1) HD High-definition Video - I expect Youtube and others to follow suite with the sites that already support High Definition content."

SEE ALSO: Apple TV To Be Renamed To ITV and Lose 1080p Playback

According to Wired.com, Youtube is currently testing out high-quality 1280x720 (720p) video playback.  There is a simple hack to see this in action, and...  it is the same hack that we posted about earlier in the year to test out the "High-Quality" mode before they rolled that out to users... namely by adding "&fmt=22" to the end of the URL string - IE - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mgan4rt7ZHw&fmt=22

There is also a great post up on Cnet where the author did a test and uploaded the video above in H.264.  The author states that it was not made available as HD right away but that it took about 15min. for the high-definition version to be available.  The author hypothesizes that Youtube could be doing a second round of processing at the same time that it is encoding H.264 conversions for playback on iPhones.

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  • http://www.reelseo.com/about/mark/ Mark Robertson

    Cool Val - that is neat - HD video finally on youtube... PS, cool art.. ;-)

    How did you upload the video - what settings?

  • Kirby1fan

    isn't it HQ hack only so far? because &fmt=22 dose not work, but &fmt=18 (HQ) dose work.

    • http://www.reelseo.com/about/mark/ Mark R Robertson

      Yeah, it still works but the video has to have been uploaded in HD - see this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mgan4rt7ZHw&fmt=22

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