Youtube hack for better quality viewing - &fmt=18

[smogthemog]

Just found this on YT and it works!

Copy & paste this code:
&fmt=18 at the end of anything you watch on YT and it seems to enhance the sound and video quality.

Jim

[buffo]

Damn, Jim - that's pretty cool!

I've always bitched about the lousy quality of the videos on Youtube. Thanks for sharing that little fix!

Adam

[liteglow]

hmm..
I did not se any particular quality changes ....

[buffo]

It doesn't work on all videos. Some of them are lousy to begin with and they stay that way. Others get a noticeable improvement. You just have to experiment.

Likewise with the sound quality... I noticed one clip went from mono to stereo after I added the "&fmt=18" to the end.

Adam

[Dr Laser]

&fmt=18 is for MPEG4 Ipod.
&fmt=6 MPEG4 high

[andy_con]

why dont you just click "watch in high quality" link just under the video?

[smogthemog]

Do you mean the small button, to the left of the 'full screen' button Andy?

If so then that only seems to make the screen size smaller??

I cannot see the link you talk of?

[andy_con]

[smogthemog]

Hmmmm - That option is not always available though.

There is definitely a marked improvement on these two links and the first one doesn't show the "watch in high quality" link. BUT the second one shows a "watch in standard quality" link ? Strange

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

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

Anyway, it works and I use it

[Dr Laser]

For firefox users
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6460