Shasoosh Posted August 21, 2008 Share Posted August 21, 2008 This is a simple "guide" i thought i'll share. add &fmt=18 to every youtube clip you watch to get the "high quality" version of the clip, even in clips you don't see the "watch in high quality" link underneath. high quality: Most of the clips i tried worked. Enjoy.. :) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/660444-youtube-in-better-quality/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trong Posted August 21, 2008 Share Posted August 21, 2008 That's old but thanks. But you can just go here: http://www.youtube.com/video_quality_settings and select that you have a high speed connection so that every video defaults to high quality. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/660444-youtube-in-better-quality/#findComment-589683502 Share on other sites More sharing options...
torrentthief Posted August 21, 2008 Share Posted August 21, 2008 didnt know about this, i've selected higher qual in settings now:) Thought they were saving on bandwidth giving us poor qual videos, the hq actually look decent instead of blurred:) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/660444-youtube-in-better-quality/#findComment-589683524 Share on other sites More sharing options...
s0nic69 Posted August 21, 2008 Share Posted August 21, 2008 thanks! i think i have seen this somewhere before, cant remember where, but thanks! sometimes when i watch the videos i think, "wish the quality was a lil better", and now it can be. I didnt know about the settings on youtube, thanks! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/660444-youtube-in-better-quality/#findComment-589683530 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denis W. Veteran Posted August 21, 2008 Veteran Share Posted August 21, 2008 If you refuse to get a YouTube account, try this User JS script instead. It automatically appends &fmt=18 to all YouTube videos. This works on Firefox with Greasemonkey and Opera. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/660444-youtube-in-better-quality/#findComment-589683548 Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckaroo Posted August 21, 2008 Share Posted August 21, 2008 Or YousableTubeFix: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/660444-youtube-in-better-quality/#findComment-589683568 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shasoosh Posted August 21, 2008 Author Share Posted August 21, 2008 That's old but thanks.But you can just go here: http://www.youtube.com/video_quality_settings and select that you have a high speed connection so that every video defaults to high quality. changing in the options to "have a high speed connection" never worked for me. I still get the low quality videos and needs to add the &fmt=18 to every clip. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/660444-youtube-in-better-quality/#findComment-589683596 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoJo Posted August 21, 2008 Share Posted August 21, 2008 Bit old, but then again I would have loved someone to come out and post it for the 6 months I watched horrible quality videos on a 20Mbps connection :p &fmt=6 also works with varying results. Sometimes better, sometimes worse (could be in my head though lol), so I'm not exactly sure how it works. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/660444-youtube-in-better-quality/#findComment-589683606 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hjf288 Posted August 21, 2008 Share Posted August 21, 2008 Alot of HQ Videos are showing Sorry this video is unavailable. or no longer available Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/660444-youtube-in-better-quality/#findComment-589683608 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abhishek kapoor Posted August 22, 2008 Share Posted August 22, 2008 But you can just go here: http://www.youtube.com/video_quality_settings thax Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/660444-youtube-in-better-quality/#findComment-589684244 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shasoosh Posted August 22, 2008 Author Share Posted August 22, 2008 thax again, changing the video settings doesn't cut it. After you changed the setting to High you can surf again to and notice you still get the low quality video. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/660444-youtube-in-better-quality/#findComment-589685242 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoom7000 Posted August 22, 2008 Share Posted August 22, 2008 Didn't know about this. Nice one, thanks! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/660444-youtube-in-better-quality/#findComment-589686684 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shasoosh Posted August 22, 2008 Author Share Posted August 22, 2008 the user js rm20010 offered didn't worked for me. YousableTubeFix however , nicely done! Thanks buckaroo. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/660444-youtube-in-better-quality/#findComment-589687826 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubbabyte Posted August 23, 2008 Share Posted August 23, 2008 can someone point me to some good encoding settings for youtube videos.. i take videos with my digicam, 640X480, xvid, mp3 audio.. and no matter what i do, when i upload it, it looks like ass... i can't seem to figure out how to make them look better. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/660444-youtube-in-better-quality/#findComment-589690104 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DARKNRGY Posted August 23, 2008 Share Posted August 23, 2008 Good tip, however it makes loading 10x longer... :pinch: (higher quality = more bandwidth) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/660444-youtube-in-better-quality/#findComment-589690122 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Srugie Veteran Posted August 25, 2008 Veteran Share Posted August 25, 2008 Nice tip! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/660444-youtube-in-better-quality/#findComment-589695164 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghatak Posted August 28, 2008 Share Posted August 28, 2008 gr8 stuff thanks for sharing Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/660444-youtube-in-better-quality/#findComment-589709476 Share on other sites More sharing options...
azz0r_wugg Posted August 28, 2008 Share Posted August 28, 2008 There's an option on your account now, you don't need to-do this. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/660444-youtube-in-better-quality/#findComment-589709512 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian M. Veteran Posted August 28, 2008 Veteran Share Posted August 28, 2008 As far as I know, the "Watch in high quality" link is posted whenever a high quality stream is available. If it's not available, you're just watching the standard quality version ;) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/660444-youtube-in-better-quality/#findComment-589711238 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shasoosh Posted August 28, 2008 Author Share Posted August 28, 2008 As far as I know, the "Watch in high quality" link is posted whenever a high quality stream is available. If it's not available, you're just watching the standard quality version ;) I believe are wrong mate, just enter the youtube link i posted in the first post. It has a good quality clip but there's no link. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/660444-youtube-in-better-quality/#findComment-589711842 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambroos Posted August 28, 2008 Share Posted August 28, 2008 Let's make it clear. Even if there ISN'T a "Watch in High Quality"-link, there oftenly IS a high-quality version! I use a combo of these two userscripts: // ==UserScript== // @name YouTube HQ Links // @description All links will directly go to HQ version // @include http://*youtube.com/* // ==/UserScript== var a=document.getElementsByTagName("a");for (i=0;i<a.length;i++) {if (a[i].href.indexOf("/watch?v")>-1){a[i].href+="&fmt=18";}} // ==UserScript== // @name YouTube HD // @summary If you watch a YouTube Video that isn't in High Quality yet, makes it high qualiy. // @include http://*youtube.com/watch?* // ==/UserScript== // Do it function is_hd() { var fmt = false; var new_url; var url = new String(window.location); // Remove HTML anchor if (url.indexOf('#') > -1) url = url.split('#')[0]; new_url = url; // Make sure we have a querystring (just in case) if (url.indexOf('?') > -1) { url = url.split('?')[1]; var segments = url.split('&'); // Check to see if we currently have a requested format for (var i=0; i<segments.length; i++) { var current = segments[i].split('='); if (current[0] == "fmt") fmt = current[1]; if (fmt) break; } // If not redirect to video in HD format if (!fmt) window.location = new_url + "&fmt=18" } // Not a video link return false; } is_hd(); both of them together make me OR directly getting HQ links OR if I am missing the fmt=18 tag redirects me to it always. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/660444-youtube-in-better-quality/#findComment-589711886 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Elі Subscriber² Posted August 28, 2008 Subscriber² Share Posted August 28, 2008 Is there a version of these scripts for Internet Explorer? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/660444-youtube-in-better-quality/#findComment-589711922 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julius Caro Posted August 28, 2008 Share Posted August 28, 2008 Good tip, however it makes loading 10x longer... :pinch: (higher quality = more bandwidth) youtube always has bandwidth problems, in most cases (at least for me), a very low bandwidth (compared to my maximum) is used. its as if youtube tried to load the thing at the kbps speed the video requires for uninterrupted playback, but always fails. chances are, 720p trailers from apple trailers will load faster than the crappiest youtube videos. it always happens to me Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/660444-youtube-in-better-quality/#findComment-589712030 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshua-San Posted September 25, 2008 Share Posted September 25, 2008 I always have my quality option set to high quality, however, adding the fmt=18 switch still improves the video and audio quality significantly. I notice this with my own music uploads, watching the video in high quality mode makes the audio sound dull and makes it single channel audio (mono). Simply disgusting audio quality. Adding the fmt=18 switch significantly improves the audio quality. The audio becomes much more clear and it's in stereo! There are still noticable artifacts in the audio where you can 'hear' the compression, but it's a lot better than the standard 'high quality' muck. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/660444-youtube-in-better-quality/#findComment-589860624 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skulltrail-old Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 Good tip, however it makes loading 10x longer... :pinch: (higher quality = more bandwidth) +1 Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/660444-youtube-in-better-quality/#findComment-589864406 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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