Heh. TechCrunch were offering an iPod Shuffle to whoever guessed correctly first:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/11/what-does-youtube-have-up-its-sleeve-guess-right-and-win-an-ipod-shuffle/ |
Will this mean I will get high res videos on the YouTube app on the iPhone? Because a lot of the videos look like crap on the phone. |
Aah I was waiting for this feature since long
In general youtube quality was very bad. |
The new API options are even more exciting. |
There's Video Playback Quality setting on My Account page:
http://www.youtube.com/video_quality_settings |
> The new API options are even more exciting.
Here is the list from the YouTube blog:
<< * Upload videos and video responses to YouTube
* Add/Edit user and video metadata (titles, descriptions, ratings, comments, favorites, contacts, etc)
* Fetch localized standard feeds (most viewed, top rated, etc.) for 18 international locales
* Perform custom queries optimized for 18 international locales
* Customize player UI and control video playback (pause, play, stop, etc.) through software>>
http://www.youtube.com/blog?entry=yFlR6EEySg8
[With hat tip to http://ReadWriteWeb.com/archives/youtube_expands_api_set.php] |
allready: 162.000 hits!
It's growing fast.
is it right, that these highjer quality vid's are in H.264 ? I mean, the same version Like the Apple TV get's from YouTube ?
" about 162,000 from www.youtube.com for "watch this video in higher quality". (0.15 seconds) " |
Weird. Using that link, I got 256 results, then refreshed and got 1,950,000 results. |
With every refresh I'm getting different values ;)
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yea i upload my own videos and i noticed the high quality option too..i googled it up and got nothing..it's nice to finally read something about it..thanks! |
You can do this manually on any video, if there's a higher quality version available, it'll get shown.
&fmt=18 is the key:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWuteFLUPSY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWuteFLUPSY&fmt=18 |
I actually find &fmt=6 better than &fmt=18..
I'm still wondering why not all videos don't get the "Watch this in high quality" option |
> I'm still wondering why not all videos don't get the "Watch this in
> high quality" option
I guess not all videos have been uploaded / stored in a higher quality. |
Now the video quality option is available as general user preference in the settings page too:
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/03/watch-youtube-videos-in-higher-quality.html |
it is available since Youtube blog has made it public. |
