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/ > > >
