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Chienworks wrote on 12/2/2008, 12:04 PM
How about ... adding it to the end of the URL? Or is that too obvious?
Ivan Lietaert wrote on 12/2/2008, 12:57 PM
It is actually &fmt=22
After uploading your hd file (720), it may take several hours before the hd version becomes available.
321 wrote on 12/2/2008, 3:00 PM
I may be misunderstanding this "&fmt=22" thing. I've uploaded a couple of HD 720 files and after clicking "watch in high quality", everything works fine. Also, after selecting my video, I can add "&fmt=22" to the URL which does the same thing. I thought I read somewhere that you could add "&fmt=22" during the upload process so that the "watch in high quality" would become sticky. Quess I was wrong.
Eugenia wrote on 12/2/2008, 3:38 PM
No, it's not the same thing. Youtube re-encodes 4 times. The default and the "high quality" versions are two of these versions, but to get the HD version you MUST add at the URL the fmt=22 thing, and the original video must be 720p HD too. If you look closely, the fmt=22 and the "high quality" versions are not the same. It is more apparent when you watch them in full screen, where you can see all the artifacts of the "high quality" version.
321 wrote on 12/2/2008, 4:14 PM
You're right. The &fmt=22 versions is much better. Learn something new every day. It seems odd that at the present time you must change the URL to reach this HD version.
gogiants wrote on 12/2/2008, 4:26 PM
Even better, try Vimeo.... people watching your videos will thank you.
musicvid10 wrote on 12/3/2008, 12:33 PM
&fmt=18 is the same as clicking "high quality"

&fmt=22 is higher quality yet, but not true "HD"
Eugenia wrote on 12/3/2008, 2:13 PM
How do you know it's not true HD? Quality seemed better than Vimeo's 720p HD service?