I've done a few really serious posts recently, so I thought it would be fun to do something a bit more fun for a change. How many of us watch videos on YouTube? Almost everybody (everyone who doesn't have a filter, that is). But how many of us are sick of the horrible quality of the movies (No, not the stupidity of the kid pouring soup down his brother's back, I'm talking about the video quality, the sharpness of the picture)? I know I am. At least, I used to be. However, I recently was shown this really cool trick: if you add
&fmt=18 to the very end of the video url, it forces Youtube to play in higher quality! See, when you upload a video to Youtube, it gets recompiled into FLV. But, when you add this code, it plays an MPEG-4 version, which is higher quality.
Now for the caveats. Since this video is higher quality, it is also larger (For one Music video I checked out, the FLV version was 11 MBs, while the MPEG-4 one was 22 MBs). This means if you have slow internet connection speed, or a slow computer, you'll want to use this feature with caution. Also, this doesn't work with every single video on Youtube. I think it's just more recently uploaded ones.
Enjoy.
