YouTube Better Quality Videos

[FeuerFrei]

If you have a YouTube account you can configure it to "always select higher quality" or something like that as a viewing preference. Then it'll load the best version if available. Sometimes the only difference you'll notice is sound clarity.
I must say though, that the high quality video likes abort during download, forcing multiple reloads. Guess the servers can't take the heat.

Originally posted by: Shlong
Hopefully they can get to stage6 quality in the near future (i loved the divx webplayer).

With Stage6 gone I'm a sad panda.

 

[Baked]

Interesting. There's a very clear difference with the dunk video. If you can't see the difference, you're legally blind.

 

[uhohs]

veoh allows downloading of the original un-reencoded file again.

 

[50cent1228]

wow great

 

[AkumaX]

i gotta try this out with some of my 90+ min videos (too bad they don't affect the older ones :\)

 

[Aharami]

i have some vids up on youtube which I uploaded early this year. I tried this trick but I dont see any difference. Do I have to reupload the vids to get it to the higher quality?

 

[tasmanian]

Originally posted by: FeuerFrei
If you have a YouTube account you can configure it to "always select higher quality" or something like that as a viewing preference. Then it'll load the best version if available. Sometimes the only difference you'll notice is sound clarity.
I must say though, that the high quality video likes abort during download, forcing multiple reloads. Guess the servers can't take the heat.

Originally posted by: Shlong
Hopefully they can get to stage6 quality in the near future (i loved the divx webplayer).

With Stage6 gone I'm a sad panda.

I know i loved stage6. Now all we have is veoh which sucks balls. The worst part about veoh is its huge lack in tv shows.

 

[dennilfloss]

6 has better bitrate but remains a mono Flash version. Try 18 for the MP4 version: slightly lower bitrate but 128kbps stereo for music videos.

http://blog.jimmyr.com/High_Qu...on_Youtube_11_2008.php

Plus you can change the settings in your account to only see the HQ versions.

All explained in detail here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT11GGD7qlI

 

[dlock13]

Can't wait till they upgrade the full screen video's quality. I was expecting the &fmt=18 to adjust it as well, but to my dismay, it was still worthless quality.

EDIT: Also, is Greasemonkey not supported on Firefox 3 Beta 5 or any of them for that matter? I am trying to install it, but it doesn't seem to want to install for my FF.

 

[Agentbolt]

Here's a good example (and a not-so-subtle plug for the greatest free game ever made for the PC). This is an OLD video from like 2 years ago and it's still clearly improved.

Low Quality

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High Quality

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You can actually read the dialogue in the higher quality ones.

 

[CorCentral]

Not HD, but decent

 

[Dimmu]

Tried it on this video, definitely noticed an increase in quality, especially for being live.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2G2jlXUkJ84&fmt=18

Thanks for the tip, man!

 

[her209]

Hey, it really works! Check out the following NSFW links.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-2iwGeZ2O4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-2iwGeZ2O4&fmt=18

 

[zoiks]

Thats funny. Celine Dion still looks just as horrible.

 

[mjrpes3]

Originally posted by: Dimmu
Tried it on this video, definitely noticed an increase in quality, especially for being live.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2G2jlXUkJ84&fmt=18

Thanks for the tip, man!

eh? the audio quality is very bad and distorted.

 

[Dimmu]

Originally posted by: mjrpes3

Originally posted by: Dimmu
Tried it on this video, definitely noticed an increase in quality, especially for being live.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2G2jlXUkJ84&fmt=18

Thanks for the tip, man!

eh? the audio quality is very bad and distorted.

For being live, streaming, AND on youtube? Still think it sounds worse than it should? Maybe I'm just used to live videos of horrendous quality.

 

[her209]

Wow, its really noticable in this Fergie video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU8k_c2YlG4&fmt=18

 

[T9D]

I saw a link the other day on youtube for the high quality version. Thought that was awesome they added that.

Most these ones you add yourself still look the same. Probably no actual higher version stored on the servers. Need to be newer.

 

[Dimmu]

Originally posted by: v1001
I saw a link the other day on youtube for the high quality version. Thought that was awesome they added that.

Most these ones you add yourself still look the same. Probably no actual higher version stored on the servers. Need to be newer.

Does it depend on the quality of the original video that the uploader submitted? I've never submitted a video to youtube so I don't know.

 

[secretanchitman]

WOW nice....is there any way to automatically set it to play in high quality mode? or do i have to click it each time for every video i see...?

 

[dennilfloss]

Originally posted by: secretanchitman
WOW nice....is there any way to automatically set it to play in high quality mode? or do i have to click it each time for every video i see...?

Check the links I provided.

 

[Greyd]

You can hear the difference here:

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[NanoStuff]

Originally posted by: Greyd
You can hear the difference here:

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Good progress, yet still so damn inadequate. I predict cautiously that by 2012 internet video will stop sucking.

 

[ed21x]

holy crap that's awesome!

 

[Josh]

Originally posted by: her209
Hey, it really works! Check out the following NSFW links.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-2iwGeZ2O4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-2iwGeZ2O4&fmt=18

:thumbsup: