Here’s a quick tip for playing YouTube videos in High Quality:

Simply add ‘&fmt=18‘ to the end of a video’s URL to watch the High Quality version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_PPOo36qN8&fmt=18

youtube-low-high-quality-comparison

Embedding High Quality videos involve adding ‘&ap=%2526fmt%3D18‘ onto the end of every URL in the embeddable code:

<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" 
  value="http://www.youtube.com/v/h_PPOo36qN8&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/h_PPOo36qN8&hl=en
  &fs=1&ap=%2526fmt%3D18" 
  type="application/x-shockwave-flash" 
  allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" 
  width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

Keep in mind that high quality versions of videos depend on the quality of the file that was originally uploaded.

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