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 (slightly noticeable) bump in resolution, try adding &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 320x240 to 448x336. Add &fmt=18 to the end of the URL, and you might get an MP4-encoded version, with better audio and a 480x360 resolution.
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Nice to know. Thanks
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ignore it. didnt work for me!!!!
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Ignored.
I tried and it just sat there and hourglassed on the same video that I know otherwise works.
Like you said maybe works on particular ones...but which ones and how can we find those. ...hmm.
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if you change the URL and it doesnt work change it back to the original one.
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finally about time.
but then again sad to see it doesnt work.
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There is a hack however to upload videos in whatever resolution you want. For example if you have 2 minute video in high def, the hack can dupe Youtube into thinking its a 8 minute video in regular def.
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yep same here...i just see the loading hour glass too!!!
Read somewhere there is a firefox extension that does the same thing!!
has anyone tried it yet? does the same thing .i will try it out soon