How to View High Resolution YouTube Videos

March 6th, 2008

If you have high speed broadband, why not watch high resolution youtube videos. YouTube is a popular video sharing site where hundreds of videos are shared and viewable in low resolution to cater to low bandwidth internet connections. But here is how you can switch to his resolution…

View high resolution youtube videos

Normally the youtube url looks like the one below which gives you low resolution 320×240 videos.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ABCDE

Simply add &fmt=6 onto the end of url
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ABCDE&fmt=6

Now you should see high resolution videos. If no change is observed, then it means the video has not been converted to the higher resolution yet. View the video in full screen mode to see the difference.

If you add &fmt=18 to the end of url.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ABCDE&fmt=18

Now it will play the high-resolution 480×360 MP4 high-bandwidth videos with higher quality audio when available, otherwise it will play the regular version. Give it a try.

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11 Responses to “How to View High Resolution YouTube Videos”

ben says:

March 6, 2008 at 5:33 am

WOW! amazing trick mate… keep em coming… anyway to do it for the other sites? dailymotion maybe?

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Computer Talk says:

March 6, 2008 at 7:06 am

Great! I got my PC linked to my HDTV… Looks much better

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kenbo says:

July 20, 2008 at 8:26 am

Or…. You could just click the “Watch this in Hi-Def” link just underneath the video! Much simpler.

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Amy says:

July 20, 2008 at 8:34 am

Wow. Thanks! That is a great tip!!! Glad I stumbled upon it!!!

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ash says:

September 13, 2008 at 4:40 pm

really great tip, but can u get any url alterations for imeem.com or movideo.com?

thanks

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TJ @ Smartblogtips says:

October 10, 2008 at 11:51 am

nice tip. very useful for clips which have a better resolution. as said, its best noticable when viewing in fullscreen mode

regards
Thinkjayant

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timo says:

November 13, 2008 at 9:54 pm

please tell me how to get it into my homepage in high quality mode. it doesn’t work with this trick here !

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Floris says:

November 25, 2008 at 2:55 pm

Please update article, since youtube changed to widescreen and users can go to their user control panel and select ‘watch in high def’

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Hasam Panezai says:

March 24, 2009 at 11:33 am

I am Student I ask you a question that how to view a video and channal on my web site by html?

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Imran says:

May 6, 2009 at 4:03 am

I want suggesion another website addresses for high resolution video.

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High Def TV says:

September 17, 2009 at 10:10 am

Who designed your page? Looks great! Is it a free template you are using?

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