Author Topic: How to get HD on Youtube (Read 14918 times)

~Dan~ · « **Reply #20 on:** March 08, 2008, 05:10:17 PM »

Gahhh! It still won't work.

It's like I was given a new toy and someone took it away.

EDIT: Ha! I found out how to make a download link by looking in the source code!

frblckstr1 · « **Reply #21 on:** March 10, 2008, 07:25:59 AM »

^ I use keepvid, just past in the view URL and it will give you a link you can right-click 'save' on.

~Dan~ · « **Reply #22 on:** March 11, 2008, 03:51:16 PM »

Quote from: frblckstr1 on March 10, 2008, 07:25:59 AM

^ I use keepvid, just past in the view URL and it will give you a link you can right-click 'save' on.

Keepvid works with the mp4 links now? When I tried a few days ago it just gave the normal flv.
EDIT: And it still doesn't work for mp4's, I just tried now.

frblckstr1 · « **Reply #23 on:** March 11, 2008, 06:31:18 PM »

I tried this link:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=TqwPNWt9XkM&fmt=18

and keepvid gives the .flv, mediainfo also says its H263/flv

do you have other (new) links to try?

~Dan~ · « **Reply #24 on:** March 12, 2008, 02:28:25 AM »

From today it looks like youtube have been trialling the higher quality versions of vids.

See the "watch this video in higher quality" link below the player window.
It seems to be adding the link at random to random vids then later if you check the video the link isn't there. Presumably they're rolling it out gradually to make sure the server can handle it.

Quote from: frblckstr1 on March 11, 2008, 06:31:18 PM

I tried this link:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=TqwPNWt9XkM&fmt=18

and keepvid gives the .flv, mediainfo also says its H263/flv

do you have other (new) links to try?

That's what I meant. Keepvid ignores the fmt=18 and just gives the flv.
New links? What do you mean? Almost every link also has a mp4 available. Paste the link in your browser with the &fmt=18 added and retrieve the mp4 froim the cache afterwards. We're not talking about flv here, but the higher quality mp4 that's also available.

frblckstr1 · « **Reply #25 on:** March 12, 2008, 07:30:26 AM »

Quote from: ~Dan~ on March 12, 2008, 02:28:25 AM

That's what I meant. Keepvid ignores the fmt=18 and just gives the flv.
New links? What do you mean? Almost every link also has a mp4 available. Paste the link in your browser with the &fmt=18 added and retrieve the mp4 froim the cache afterwards. We're not talking about flv here, but the higher quality mp4 that's also available.

I know, thats why I wanted some links with still known working high-quality links/mp4's to see what keepvis is doing with them.
(it still looks like it only gets the 320x240 version)

eglue · « **Reply #26 on:** March 12, 2008, 06:28:01 PM »

www.youconvertit.com is a good place for converting

StreakInTheSky · « **Reply #27 on:** March 13, 2008, 06:42:47 AM »

huh? I don't think they need to convert anything.

I think almost every yt vid has a mp4 version of it. It has worked for every vid I've tried so far.

oh and I think Dan might be right about them testing it out for future use. I googled it and found this

http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9817732-2.html

sounds pretty nifty. And for those with weak connections they'll still have the crap quality vids they've always used

~Dan~ · « **Reply #28 on:** March 13, 2008, 02:59:35 PM »

Yeah I don't need to convert anything. Some of the mp4's look really nice when played full screen! (whereas the flv's full screen would look like shit).

Guchi_Jnr · « **Reply #29 on:** March 13, 2008, 04:19:07 PM »

@ ~Dan~
I get "watch this video in lower quality" with every video I add that &fmt=18 tag, and if I click it, I'm then asked if I want to watch it in higher quality.. So I'm thinking that these tags are simply for the quality vs speed thing they are planning on doing..

And I noticed this in the source code...
http://m.youtube.com/
...which is for mobile phones and uses .3gp video extension.. Can't get any of them to play, but don't really want to either, since they are so damn small..

StreakInTheSky · « **Reply #30 on:** March 13, 2008, 07:40:24 PM »

hmm interesting.

My brother's new phone has some youtube thing, but I can never seem to get it to work. maybe it uses that, but it's currently in development so it doesn't work yet?

frblckstr1 · « **Reply #31 on:** March 14, 2008, 07:23:27 AM »

Quote from: StreakInTheSky on March 13, 2008, 07:40:24 PM

hmm interesting.

My brother's new phone has some youtube thing, but I can never seem to get it to work. maybe it uses that, but it's currently in development so it doesn't work yet?

You (currently?) stil need a flashplayer to see the video's.

~Dan~ · « **Reply #32 on:** March 16, 2008, 04:18:13 AM »

Quote from: Guchi_Jnr on March 13, 2008, 04:19:07 PM

@ ~Dan~
I get "watch this video in lower quality" with every video I add that &fmt=18 tag, and if I click it, I'm then asked if I want to watch it in higher quality.. So I'm thinking that these tags are simply for the quality vs speed thing they are planning on doing..

Yeah it's working again for me now. Whatever ban they put on my ip has been lifted. (I found a way around it last week anyway!

)
There's a blog post here about the high quality: http://www.youtube.com/blog?entry=ponKL3LTyr0

frblckstr1 · « **Reply #33 on:** March 31, 2008, 12:37:17 PM »

keepvid.com will now produce two links for a youtube, one .flv one .mp4

search is over

Shisu · « **Reply #34 on:** April 23, 2008, 08:57:26 AM »

I've found that Sony Vegas is a really good tool for successfully being able to upload your videos with that high definition/standard definition option.

The settings I use are:
CBR Windows Media Audio 9.2, 192kbps, 44kHz, stereo
Bitrate VBR Windows Media Video 9 480x360 @ 59.94(Double NTSC)fps Average bit rate 1.50 M

and this will produce a wmv file that when you upload it to youtube, within an hour it should give you the hd option as well as the sd.

shurrupak · « **Reply #35 on:** December 23, 2010, 02:08:25 PM »

I use savevids (onlnei service) to download then

I3ozz · « **Reply #36 on:** May 31, 2011, 04:44:16 PM »

I prefer Youtube HD downloader for any users

and for Firefox user, plz use video downloadhelper extension

masskiss · « **Reply #37 on:** March 12, 2012, 06:17:10 AM »

hmm, isn't it depends on the video quality uploaded by the uploader too?

if the uploader uploads a bad quality video, I don't think the video resolution will get any better because of this. . .

pikapikapika · « **Reply #38 on:** March 12, 2012, 07:30:07 PM »

this topic was made 4 years ago, haha. things are different now!

masskiss · « **Reply #39 on:** March 13, 2012, 12:35:01 AM »

Quote from: pikapikapika on March 12, 2012, 07:30:07 PM

this topic was made 4 years ago, haha. things are different now!

oh lol that makes sense

I wonder why the mods don't just lock this old thread?