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Default YouTube quality option

On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 03:45:17 -0500, Terry Pinnell wrote
(in article ):

Any YouTube experts around please?

I've been trying a tip I was given to add this string to the end of
the URL of a YouTube video, resulting in higher quality (if it's there
to start with, of course):
&fmt=18

It does seem to give higher quality playback.

I'm a YouTube novice so maybe I'm missing something obvious, but why
such an obscure way of actioning an important feature?

Also I find it odd that there's a simple one-click way to do it as you
see from my screenshot:
http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s...YouTube-HQ.jpg

Yet that only appears AFTER you've added the suffix!



Wow! Not to hijack you post, but that really widens the stereo spectrum on my
cut.

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

Regards,

Ty Ford


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