Sachinism Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 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 is that 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. Somewhere i did heard 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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxQrPXPSVhQ Now to watch a high quality version of the same YouTube, you will use the link below http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxQrPXPSVhQ&fmt=18 truthfully i dont see that much of a difference, but at times you do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rajiv Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 Youtube is popular but the quality sucks big time for embedded videos Dailymotion is way better and classy encoding Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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