Get Higher Resolution YouTube Videos


	Get Higher Resolution YouTube Videos

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3-9-2008 4:00 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/bb4db210-1437-452d-9bf0-81a4dd9429f0/36DBEDC6-4452-49EE-9D17-AAFB2AAB8F82/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/03/youtube-tests-higher-resolution-videos.html" href="http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/03/youtube-tests-higher-resolution-videos.html" style="font-size: 11px;">googlesystem.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/03/youtube-tests-higher-resolution-videos.html"><P class="post-body"><DIV>Following <A href="http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/11/youtube-to-introduce-high-quality.html">the announcement from November</A>, YouTube started to test <A href="http://cybernetnews.com/2008/02/29/watch-high-resolution-youtube-videos/">higher quality videos</A>. If you append <SPAN>&fmt=6</SPAN> to the URL of a YouTube video, you should get better quality videos. Note that this only works for a small number of videos.</DIV><BR /><DIV>Here's an example of video that's available both in <A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAE2-FQHkok">the regular version</A> (320x240) and in <A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAE2-FQHkok&fmt=6">a higher quality encoding</A> (448x336). The audio is now encoded at a sample rate of 44100 Hz, up from 22050 Hz. As you can see in the screenshots below, the right image is clearer and more detailed.</DIV><BR /><IMG border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5173294688987235074" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_ZaGO7GjCqAI/R8s8HD9_wwI/AAAAAAAAH4E/eHK5TLB1sOg/s640/youtube-better-quality-videos.jpg" /><BR /><DIV>While this increase of resolution might seem minor, for the example above YouTube's re-encoded FLV file is more than twice bigger than the old one (from 9 MB to 22 MB), so it will load much slower.</DIV><BR /><DIV>If you append <SPAN>&fmt=18</SPAN>, YouTube downloads the video as a MP4 (H264 with AAC audio), encoded at 480x360. Here's the same video <A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAE2-FQHkok&fmt=18">encoded as MP4</A>.</DIV><BR /></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/36DBEDC6-4452-49EE-9D17-AAFB2AAB8F82/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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