YouTube Qualitizer

[nikki]

I found on this page on sinbad's blog, that you can watch YouTube videos at better quality by adding "&fmt=18" to the end of the video.

To do this quicker, if you're using Firefox (should work with IE and others too), you can add a bookmark with piece of javascript code that does this quickly.

1. Go to the Bookmarks menu, and click on Organize Bookmarks.
2. Click the New Bookmark... icon.
3. Set the name as 'YouTube Qualitizer' or something like that, and set the location field as the following code:-

Code: Select all

javascript:if(top.location.href.indexOf("youtube")!=-1){location.href=top.location.href+"&fmt=18"};

4. Click OK.

Now, whenever you're on a YouTube page, just click this bookmark to watch the video at a better quality. You can make it automatic using GreaseMonkey scripts.

[Kencho]

Great tip I suspect this doesn't work with every video, as only some of them have the "Watch this video in better quality" link

[syedhs]

Hmm at the top of your posting you said at "&fmt=6" while the js code says "&fmt=18" - so which one is it?

I guess it should be the latter one as code speaks louder than words

[nikki]

Hmm at the top of your posting you said at "&fmt=6" while the js code says "&fmt=18" - so which one is it?

I guess it should be the latter one as code speaks louder than words

Oops! Got mixed up some how hehe.

Fixed now.