YouTube announced in November that they would be testing out encoding videos at higher resolutions (and with higher-quality audio encoding). Now it appears that a small sampling of uploaded videos can already be seen at their higher resolutions, simply by adding a little tag to the end of the video’s URL. To get a noticeable bump in resolution on some clips, add &fmt=6 to the end of the address line. The trick, according to YouTube watchers, seems to work primarily with newer videos, and bumps the resolution from 320×240 to 448×336. Add &fmt=18 to the end of the URL, and you might get an MP4-encoded version, with better audio and a 480×360 resolution. Update: Now the Better YouTube Firefox extension includes this feature.
original source – “Google Systems”
article source – “lifehacker.com”
Hey, nice hack, Thx people of blog.dotkam
I had this plugin for Firefox for a while now, that is able to download videos from YouTbe, but was not aware before that the resolution could have been improved. thx.
Yea, the YouTube resolution sucks big time, it is about time to do summ about it.
I uploaded good resolution videos there before, but it was converted to a disaster…
So, as I said – it is about time!
Wow, really nice hack. I just tried it out, that’s a definite improvement. I agree with above, it’s about time YouTube!
Thanks for the tip !!!
What a neat hack, how did you get this little secret info?
Your work is marvelous!!