I was just going to say that your messages look better already. Thanks for posting the link. videohelp.com is a great site.
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Steve Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Oh I forgot to post a link to forum where this was discovered and > discussed at length, people working out what the best format to upload > is, stuff like that: > > http://forum.videohelp.com/topic346256.html > > Oh and also apologies to everyone that my posts have had annoying line > breaks in them for months, I was posting using safari 3 via yahoo > groups web interface, which I guess was causing the problem. I didnt > notice it until Patrick pointed it out to me, cheers to him for that, > I'll use Firefox 3 beta to post and hopefully no more badly formed > messages from me. > > Steve Elbows > > > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Steve Watkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Good :) The fmt=18 ones appear to be h264 .mp4's 480x360, being played > > through flash. It is possible to download them, they may be the same > > versions curently being used on apple tv or iphone/ipod touch youtube > > feature, not sure. > > > > The fmt=6 one (of the dog skateboarding at least) appeared to be some > > sort of higher quality .flv, I havent tried to work out what codec > or res. > > > > Cheers > > > > Steve Elbows > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Delongchamp" > > <pdelongchamp@> wrote: > > > > > > Some great news, Youtube is taking early steps at providing higher > > > quality videos. > > > > > > By adding a parameter onto the end of a video's URL you're able to > > > watch it in a higher quality (in terms of audio and video) that is > > > actually quite noticeable though not all videos have been converted at > > > this point. > > > > > > About 15% have been converted apparently and new uploads get converted > > > after a few hours. > > > > > > To view the higher quality versions, just add &fmt=6 onto the end of > > > any YouTube URL. Using the skateboarding dog as an example you would > > > take the normal URL: > > > > > > http://youtube.com/watch?v=CQzUsTFqtW0 > > > > > > and add the &fmt=6 onto the end: > > > > > > http://youtube.com/watch?v=CQzUsTFqtW0&fmt=6 > > > > > > If the YouTube video just sits there loading then that is a sign that > > > the video has not been converted to the higher resolution yet. To > > > really see the difference you should view the video in full screen > > > mode. > > > > > > Note: Alternatively you can add &fmt=18 and it will play the > > > high-resolution version when available, otherwise it will play the > > > regular version. Here's a Greasemonkey script > > > (http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/23366) that will automatically > > > add &fmt=18 onto the end of each YouTube URL. > > > > > > Source: > > > > http://cybernetnews.com/2008/02/29/watch-high-resolution-youtube-videos/ > > > > > > >
