Comments for Is YouTube Rolling Out Higher Quality Video Tomorrow?

Is YouTube Rolling Out Higher Quality Video Tomorrow?

2008-03-12T04:16:39Z

YouTube is making a mystery announcement tomorrow, Erick Schonfeld writes at TechCrunch. Schonefeld's guess is that it may be a partnership with Hulu, but the folks over at Mahalo have another interesting theory. They discovered a new link below a YouTube player today that flips playback over to a higher-quality copy of the video on this page. You can visit that page, for an Amy Sedaris interview with David Letterman, or see the screencapture from Mahalo, embedded below.

]]> Update: YouTube Expands API Set - Including Upload, Player APIs (this was the actual announcement tonight, but perhaps high quality video is still to come)

Comment from Cory on 2008-03-11

2008-03-12T04:31:17Z

My prediction will be creating something like Seesmic service.

Comment from Dan Grossman on 2008-03-11

2008-03-12T05:09:27Z

I'd hope they're switching the entire site to Silverlight 2 video, but that wouldn't happen since they're owned by Google.

Comment from Pam on 2008-03-11

2008-03-12T05:11:57Z

That would be great--most of the videos are pretty low quality on youtube even though the author did their best to ensure a higher quality. What I wish they'd update, though, is their ability to maintain an embedded video on another website. I've heard from quite a few people that the embed codes stop working after about a month or so. It could be the website host tweaking out, of course, but it's still a bummer to have happen.

Comment from .jonah on 2008-03-11

2008-03-12T06:28:54Z

yup, throw &fmt=6 on the end of the url and you'll see the higher quality (h264 I think) version if that vid's been re-encoded.

Comment from kuldeep on 2008-03-12

2008-03-12T08:17:27Z

Awesome dig...indeed its going to be HD

Comment from D on 2008-03-12

2008-03-12T08:42:02Z

I'm viewing videos right now in High Def.
I have a screenshot as well.

Comment from D on 2008-03-12

2008-03-12T08:43:41Z

Here is link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1zgFlCw8Aw&eurl

Comment from chvnx on 2008-03-29

2008-03-29T07:14:25Z

I have a blog post about how you can watch ALL YouTube videos in High Quality by simply adding some code to the URL. Copy & paste is all you need to know!

http://chvnx.com/2008/03/youtube-hack.html