Monday, October 06, 2008
YouTube has turned out to be the most successful online streaming website on the net. Alexa projects it to be the second most visited site on the web falling short to Yahoo and beating Google itself to get the spot recently. With thousands of videos added daily in virtually all imaginable categories it doesn’t look like things are ever going to look bleak for them in a long time, and also there’s the other thing – it’s owned by the Big ‘G’.
With the world wide popularity it has gained ‘web wide’ it has also brought about a few angry users and has gained criticisms for quite a few things, a recurring factor being the quality of videos provided. So, finally getting to the point here I am going to show you how to get a high quality version of a YouTube video.
All you have to do is add ‘&fmt=18’ to the end of the URL. That’s it! You’ll know it you have done the change properly because it says ‘Watch this video in lower quality for faster playback’, right below the video. Bear in mind that while it says this for all videos you wouldn’t really notice any difference in some videos, they are probably ‘working on it’ when it comes to the videos where you don’t see any difference. Also it does slow down the loading time considerably; in my opinion I think I am happy with the default quality.
(This article is from Computer-Realm.net)