Comments on: Force YouTube to Automatically Play Videos in Higher Quality Resolution Mode by Default

By: Music Videos

Music Videos — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:14:14 +0000

This doesn’t force auto play of HD videos, it only works for your own account. Others will have to do the same for videos to play in HD for them.

By: Mayur Jobanputra

Mayur Jobanputra — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 05:29:04 +0000

Hey, thanks for that tip! Wicked. Now, only if they will put the HQ link in the embed, my life will be complete

By: Will

Will — Sat, 23 May 2009 13:30:17 +0000

Same here TS. Really really annoying!!

By: Buzzfair

Buzzfair — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:33:22 +0000

Question: do high quality views still count towards total views on YouTube?

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By: Average Joe

Average Joe — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:21:37 +0000

Hi all

I use Speedbit Video Accelerator (v2.2.4.6) in tandem with Internet Explorer (v8 beta #2). Since the previous versions of both SVA and IE before, the accelerator works well during standard play but apparently doesn’t even detecting any video loading whenever I switch to HQ mode in Youtube. Seems like the accelerator doesn’t work when I need it most. Even adding &fmt=18 to the URL or changing my YouTube setting doesn’t help.

Any idea? Thank you.

By: mark

mark — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:58:47 +0000

wow this post was so useful! thanks so much..i’ll be linking my friends to this

By: How to Watch 720p Video Clip in YouTube » My Digital Life

How to Watch 720p Video Clip in YouTube » My Digital Life — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 14:16:15 +0000

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By: Rhye

Rhye — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:39:52 +0000

Io ho caricato un video http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=3bwdvhliFMo che però nonostante lo abbia messo in alta qualità me lo fa sentire comunque ion uscita stereo, qualche consiglio?

By: John

John — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:17:59 +0000

“Watch in high quality” button will not give you stereo sound. To watch in HQ Stereo, you need &fmt=18 hack.

By: chris H

chris H — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:04:58 +0000

I have tried this method, but i still find that the videos i watch are still not automatically loading in HQ mode. I’m still having to manually set the &fmt=18 extension on most of my URLs. What gives?

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:53:58 +0000

Greasemonkey scripts fix this. Even enables on files that aren’t listed as Higher def.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/26187

Cheers

By: TS

TS — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:49:31 +0000

I’m not sure if this applies to anyone else, but my quality settings do NOT save. After a few hours of having “higher-quality” playback as my default, my settings revert to “choose my video quality dynamically…” and Youtube plays standard quality first. I know that this is not a cookie issue because I remain logged into Youtube; the problem is server-side because my settings reset frequently.

Apparently a few other people are having this problem and have posted on the Youtube community forums but have not yet gotten a response.

By: How to Embed High Quality and Higher Resolution YouTube Videos on Blog or Website » My Digital Life

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:41:54 +0000

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