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How to embed high quality YouTube videos
Filed under: Video, Web services, Google, web 2.0
A lot of people don’t know that YouTube has high quality videos, as well as the generally poor-quality standard versions. The links to the better (not HD, but still pretty good) versions are easy to miss, but there are a few steps you can take to make sure you’re watching (and even embedding) the good stuff. Jason Kottke ran through a few of them recently on kottke.org.
First, make high-quality your default setting. You can do this in the Account menu, under “Playback Setup.” That takes care of playback, but what if you want to link to the high-quality version of a video? Just paste “&fmt=18” or “&fmt=22” at the end of the URL. 18 is the 480×360 version, and 22 is the 720p version. Some videos will have one, but not the other, so try both if you need to.
When it comes to embedding, you can make a quick change to the embed code to get better video quality. Just add "&ap=%2526fmt%3D18" to the end of the URLs in your embed code. Here's an example:
<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/oHg5SJYRHA0&hl=en&fs=1&ap=%2526fmt%3D18"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/oHg5SJYRHA0&hl=en&fs=1&ap=%2526fmt%3D18" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
[via Kottke]
How to embed high quality YouTube videos originally appeared on Download Squad on Sat, 15 Nov 2008 14:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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enough is enough, youtube trolls
02 Sep, 2008 • posts i've written • 3 comments
When I get very frustrated, I say a little chant to be more tolerant. A sorta ‘serenity now’. But I’m no Hare Krishna. And I’m certainly no George Harrison. Sometimes my frustration gets the best of me, and I have to blog it out.
I was perusing The Guardian’s 50 Greatest Arts Videos on Youtube, and quite enjoying Ian Curtis and Joy Division perform Shadowplay on Granada Reports when I scrolled down to read the comments. Bad mistake.
As you may or may not know, I have seriously backed down from my pro stance on forced sterilization after running for student vice president in seventh grade, but I may just need to fit myself for a size twelve flip flop.
Tell me, youtube trolls, 4SergioBonner4 and richard40567, if those are your real names, is it your apparent lack of anything close to musical taste or your butchering of our Lord’s language that should warrant your continued existence? Youtube should just allow the option of leaving a generic troll comment, something like, “I’m an utter moron that apparently attempts to make up for the fact that I was born with defective mutant genitalia (looks like a chicken neck) with inane blunderings on video sharing websites.”
Serenity now. Serenity now.
I’m verklempt, talk amongst yourselves and enjoy the clip.
letting go of the 1980′s
13 Aug, 2008 • posts i've written • No comments
A newish video by the Mystery Jets:
Maybe its more than simple nostalgia, maybe there’s a spirit of the 80′s we miss:
And a special bonus, a few minutes of me awkwardly shaking my butt at you:
