View YouTube in higher resolution
Note: For now, this only works for a few videos.
By adding a bit of extension at the end of a YouTube page URL, you can view the higher resolution of a video.
By appending &fmt=6 at the end of the URL, you should be able to view a higher quality video.
Here’s an example of video that’s available both in the regular version (320×240) and in a higher quality encoding (448×336). The audio is now encoded at a sample rate of 44100 Hz, up from 22050 Hz. As you can see in the screenshots below, the right image is clearer and more detailed.
While this increase of resolution might seem minor, for the example above YouTube’s re-encoded FLV file is more than twice bigger than the old one (from 9 MB to 22 MB), so it will load much slower.
If you use &fmt=18, the video format will be MP4 (H264 with AAC audio), encoded at 480×360.
Take note that the higher the quality of the video, the slower it will load and the bigger it’s filesize is.
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