Tricks

Simple Hack to Watch High quality, Stereo surround YouTube videos

4 Comments 27 November 2008

youtube-hd-720pvideo

Recently YouTube Videos have been rolled out to high Quality Video toggle option which shows 480×260 videos. Now, a simple hack to watch HD videos with video resolution 1280×720 also known as 720p is available. This new format is h264 encoded mp4 file with a size above 80mb and seems like real HD 720p video and looks clean and professional in the widescreen format.

The hack is similar to the one that was first used to toggle on the “high quality” mode by adding “&fmt=18″ to the end of a YouTube video’s url. For 720p, It is done simply by adding “&fmt=22” to the end of the video URL.

If you are uploading an video, the HD version is not available as soon as the regular one but it may take about 15-20 minutes to appear. It means YouTube might be re-encoding the same video to High resolution again. At the moment, there is only this way to watch these videos but in future, YouTube will give this option by default as “HD toggle” option.

Credits : Wired

Update : Youtube officially launched 720p HD video toggle option so no need to perform this trick. Click to know more

Related Posts with Thumbnails

SHARE THIS ARTICLE

Facebook Email Stumble Digg Orkut

Get updates related to Simple Hack to Watch High quality, Stereo surround YouTube videos in your Email

Author

Rohit Langde

Rohit Langde - who has written 829 posts on Blogsolute.

Rohit is editor-in-chief and owner of Blogsolute. He is a Technology Enthusiast and You can follow him on twitter @blogsolute

Your Comments

4 Comments so far

  1. neelapala says:

    Rohit, The simple mod to the URl that lets me directly watch content in HD is sweet.
    Is there a way to actually embed the HD video in a blog? Like blogspot.
    thanks,

  2. neelapala says:

    Rohit, The simple mod to the URl that lets me directly watch content in HD is sweet.
    Is there a way to actually embed the HD video in a blog? Like blogspot.
    thanks,


Share your view

Post a comment

Incoming search terms for the article:

vado hd hacks,firefox stereo naar 5 1,youtube video in hd,youtube hd hack 720,watching hd youtube videos,view high definition youtube on nokia 5800,vado hd hack,simpel hq hack,how to watch youtube in stereo,how to watch HD on utube
Subscribe to Newsletter Subscribe to SMS alerts

Netvibes Friendfeed Google Reader Add to Yahoo
Friends
dotTech
NiharsWorld

© Blogsolute. Powered by Wordpress.

Sitemap | Privacy Policy