How to enable 720p on YouTube

[tuanming]

Found something kool on web and would like to share it with you guys! First of all, the video has to be 720p when it was made before uploading onto YouTube. So not all video can be view in 720p Just add &fmt=22 to the end of the YouTube link to enabled it.

Sample:

Regular: YouTube - Where the Hell is Matt? (2008)

1280x720: YouTube - Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) (use full screen view)

Clicking the "watch in high quality" link won't show 720p .

***Update***: Youtube now have the "watch in HD" option! Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh0TKdTaLto

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Last edited by tuanming; December 6th, 2008 at 12:51..

[cottonvibes]

nice find,

i already knew about the &fmt=18 to make normal videos 'high quality'
but i didn't know about &fmt=22

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[Hard core Rikki]

This was a known old trick (even 22). Thanks for reminding people, could help them.

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[Phil]

nice find

[tuanming]

"Higher quality" can't compared to 720p xD. I actually found out that "22" today... I've been known about 18 and 6 for quite sometime. But most YT videos( if not all) works with 18 and 6 but 22 is a different story.

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[cottonvibes]

what sucks is that we have to type this stuff ourselves, when youtube should just have a link directly to the high-quality videos.

btw, that video about the guy dancing around the world was funny.

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[Dax]

A bit offtopic: but another thing Youtube should do is allow more than 10 minute videos[I know certain accounts can post longer videos, but if you were to make a new account, say today, you wouldn't be able to]. It's ridiculous.

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[Hard core Rikki]

Originally Posted by cottonvibes

what sucks is that we have to type this stuff ourselves, when youtube should just have a link directly to the high-quality videos.

One word, cotton-chan.
GreaseMonkey.

There are better video hosters that dont limit your videos running time at all.
Megavideo for example. 90 minutes videos arent an uncommon thing on it (such as fulllength episodes), not to mention higher quality.

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Last edited by Hard core Rikki; November 15th, 2008 at 08:43.. Reason: Automerged Doublepost

[Phil]

or revver

[Squall-Leonhart]

Originally Posted by Hard core Rikki

This was a known old trick (even 22). Thanks for reminding people, could help them.

the threads i can find on here only list 6 and 18.

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[Hard core Rikki]

The old threads, sure. Google rolled many more updates to its services than people seem to have noticed.

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[Silenus]

Originally Posted by Hard core Rikki

One word, cotton-chan.
GreaseMonkey.

There are better video hosters that dont limit your videos running time at all.
Megavideo for example. 90 minutes videos arent an uncommon thing on it (such as fulllength episodes), not to mention higher quality.

Megavideo is great, a lot of anime, but I hate it because is really difficult to make a psptube script for it.

Seems the video (flv) link is really hard to find.

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[ozzgx4]

I didn't know about this, its pretty good

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[fried_egg]

yeah you can watch whole movies on megavideo. its kind of ridiculous.

[tuanming]

Youtube now have wide screen view recheck the first link i posted

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[Kaizen]

Originally Posted by tuanming

Youtube now have wide screen view recheck the first link i posted

even though youtube just upgraded it's still not the same quality as the 22fmt trick

I'll make a fullscreen comparison just now

YouTube - This is a Youtube 720P HD TEST! (READ INFO)


YouTube - This is a Youtube 720P HD TEST! (READ INFO)


PS, ngemu compressed the image quality, both were slightly better to begin with

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	22fmt.jpg (96.8 KB, 91 views)
	NOT-22fmt.jpg (75.4 KB, 90 views)

[cottonvibes]

Originally Posted by Kaizen

even though youtube just upgraded it's still not the same quality as the 22fmt trick

I'll make a fullscreen comparison just now

YouTube - This is a Youtube 720P HD TEST! (READ INFO)

YouTube - This is a Youtube 720P HD TEST! (READ INFO)

PS, ngemu compressed the image quality, both were slightly better to begin with

yeah from those tests i see:

fmt22 > 'high quality' > normal


someone mentioned that youtube widened the width to 960 pixels.

but 720p == 1280x720, so the width should be '1280' if you want full 720p high-def.

anyways, i hope they organize things in the future.
because sometimes the fmt22 trick doesn't work, and sometimes the fmt18 messes up the video.

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[Kaizen]

Originally Posted by cottonvibes

yeah from those tests i see:

fmt22 > 'high quality' > normal


someone mentioned that youtube widened the width to 960 pixels.

but 720p == 1280x720, so the width should be '1280' if you want full 720p high-def.

anyways, i hope they organize things in the future.
because sometimes the fmt22 trick doesn't work, and sometimes the fmt18 messes up the video.

They probably will like they did the first time,

check this vid out
YouTube - Motion Test Youtube HD 720p mov h.264 (Add &fmt=22 to end of URL)

I'm aiming to make my future fraps game videos look this good

[cottonvibes]

Originally Posted by Kaizen

They probably will like they did the first time,

check this vid out
YouTube - Motion Test Youtube HD 720p mov h.264 (Add &fmt=22 to end of URL)

I'm aiming to make my future fraps game videos look this good

heh, cool.

that game is coming out on NDS i think.

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[Lord Zedeck]

Bump?

First of all, YouTube seems to have replaced the "watch in high quality" link with "watch in HD" links where available. That wasn't there a while ago, so this change must have been made very recently.

Secondly, this 720p isn't true 720p, or at least it doesn't look like it. I've seen other video sites claim the same thing. It's definitely higher than the high quality option though. Normal quality looks unwatchable (I always felt this way, and it's why I never used YouTube before).

To point this out, here are links to a video I recently made. It was recorded in 1280x720, so it's 720p HD (if you have your YouTube account options set to override the quality options, this may not show the differences for you).

Normal quality.
YouTube - Crysis Warhead Massive Attack

High quality
YouTube - Crysis Warhead Massive Attack

HD quality
YouTube - Crysis Warhead Massive Attack

There's definitely differences between each one. Look at the text in high quality versus HD quality. Still, the supposed 720p doesn't look as good as the one I uploaded. You may be saying "it's due to compression". It did lose quality during compression, yes, but the compressed version I uploaded is noticeably clearer than the HD quality version YouTube is showing. The HD quality version still has those JPEG like boxes from compression, so I assume YouTube isn't using true 720p, or if it is really that size, there's still some quality loss going on somewhere for some reason (so it doesn't look 720p). It's still a nice upgrade though, as you can see the difference, but I wouldn't consider it true 720p just yet. The video Kaizen linked to even had this in the description, so I do wonder.

It looks~~~~ eh, ok, the video was crystal clear when I uploaded it but I could of done somehting wrong, at least I know it works (clearer when viewed with &fmt=22)

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