How to Embed High Quality and Higher Resolution YouTube Videos on Blog or Website
Viewers can now opt to view YouTube video clips in higher quality, or even set YouTube to playback the video in high resolution quality mode automatically by default whenever the video is watched on YouTube website. However, for YouTube video clip which embedded on blog or web page, viewers won’t have such flexibility to switch or upgrade the video playback to higher quality streaming, unless webmaster or blogger specifically embed a high quality and high resolution YouTube embed code on the website.
To allow visitors to web pages embedded with YouTube video clip to view and watch the video in high quality mode, webmaster has to use the hack below to embed the code that will stream from high quality video source, which stream as a MP4 (H264 with AAC audio) and encoded at 480×360. Similar to the hack to view high quality video on YouTube with &fmt=18 or &fmt=6 switch, publisher needs to append a switch to the YouTube embed code so that the Flash Player knows that it should play the video with high quality video streaming.
What’s the different between normal quality and high quality YouTube videos? Take a look at the 2 embedded YouTube video clips below, featuring sexy Mariah Carey singing Touch My Body, and you would amazed.
Normal quality version of YouTube video
High quality version of YouTube video
However, the default “&fmt=18″ flag for URL address bar will not work on embed code. In YouTube embed code, add and append &ap=%2526fmt%3D18 to the end of video clip’s URL specified in “param value” and “embed src”. For example, for video above, the embed code will be as below:
<object width=”425″ height=”344″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/_w0AwGCjqnw&hl=en&rel=0″></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/_w0AwGCjqnw&hl=en&rel=0″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”425″ height=”344″></embed></object>
Apend the &ap=%2526fmt%3D18 to the end of two instances of http://www.youtube.com/v/xxxxxxxxxxx&hl=en&rel=0 within the original quotation mark, where xxxxxxxxxxx represents the unique video ID. The high quality YouTube embed looks like below:
<object width=”425″ height=”344″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/_w0AwGCjqnw&hl=en&rel=0&ap=%2526fmt%3D18″></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/_w0AwGCjqnw&hl=en&rel=0&ap=%2526fmt%3D18″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”425″ height=”344″></embed></object>
The best part of high quality video can be enlarged to the width of 480 with affecting the viewing quality as the streaming video is encoded in 480×360 resolution.
With HD era arriving, YouTube now supports playback of YouTube hosted video in 720p HD (High Definition) picture quality resolution in near CD audio quality. Here’s how to embed video on external third party websites or blogs to play YouTube in 720p resolution or embed video to play in HD by default.
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October 21st, 2009 16:36
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August 13th, 2009 13:48
Really good tip, I use this often even on regular quality video’s as it makes them a little clearer
June 14th, 2009 14:56
Since a few days the hack doesn’t work anymore
&ap=%2526fmt%3D18
This is the answer from youtube
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/youtube/thread?tid=391cfb2db6b3b17b&hl=en
Anyone knows an updated hack ??
May 2nd, 2009 17:53
Cool..The embedded code works for my website and some friends told me that I have a different quality videos (means good quality, off course..)
Thanks
April 8th, 2009 00:18
I’d been searching all over for this, no one could tell me. I just added this to my videos and it worked.
I was using vimeo for a long time because of this, still uploading to youtube, now I can use youtube videos on my site and not sacrifice the quality.
Thanks a bunch!
April 3rd, 2009 08:11
hey, a couple of things:
1) The only problem I have with HQ embedding is that the little icon in the video doesn’t actually show that it is HQ or HD, which i just annoying, because visitors will always hit the button for better quality, not realizing that it doesn’t do anything. Does anyone know if there is a way to get around this???
2) the videos in this post are dead.
Thanks guys!
March 16th, 2009 18:28
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March 11th, 2009 06:55
Is it possible to embed high quality video with YouTube Custom Player, especially that layout with many small screens display on the side? Its video ID# goes like this: =”http://www.youtube.com/cp/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx=” I tried to append &ap=%2526fmt%3D18 to the end of the video ID# within the original quotation mark (as you have suggested above)but it doesn’t work. Please HELP! Thank you in advance.
March 9th, 2009 10:33
Thanks! This worked!
February 19th, 2009 07:27
Thanks for this post, it helped me embed high quality videos from youtube on my blogs.
February 17th, 2009 20:47
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February 7th, 2009 07:00
This is really useful, thanks a lot for the tip – the videos in low quality just look so bad, but this makes all the difference
February 6th, 2009 14:53
Great ! I will add this to my bookmarks. TY
February 3rd, 2009 07:15
Hey, thanks for the code. I couldn’t figure it out on the embed code, until I used the &ap=%2526fmt%3D18 . That helped me out, and I couldn’t find it anywhere else. Have a great day.
February 1st, 2009 20:40
Thanks for providing this tip. Works great!
January 27th, 2009 23:12
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January 27th, 2009 02:00
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January 24th, 2009 07:30
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