Secret trick to get hi-res Youtube videos!!

[SerbMarko]

Did you all know that you can increase the quality of Youtube videos by adding...

&fmt=18

...to the end of the address of the video?

Still not as sharp as the original but they look a lot better! It doesn't work for all of them, just the more recently uploaded vids.

Check out the difference from this...

...to this...

p.s. the difference isn't something to WOW about, but there is definitely a difference..

 

[Johnny Bravo]

Last Friday Youtube made is possible to view the videos in 320x240 like we're used to or in a higher 480x360. Besides that the bitrate has been increased from 292 kbps to 518 kbps and the audio from 22kHz to 44kHz. The sounds is still in mono though.

 

[Beefcake]

I noticed that last night too when I was watching my Undergrads.

 

[Johnnyz2k2]

No change??