YOUTUBE HACK: How to watch ANY VIDEO in HD on YouTube!

**jason_jinx** · 05-18-08, 12:11 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27mb_AyzGyQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27mb_AyzGyQ&fmt=18

**jason_jinx** · 05-18-08, 12:12 AM

what bullshit i feel nubbed up :2

**~~Cecil900~~** · 05-18-08, 12:14 AM

Wha?

**Ewok** · 05-18-08, 12:30 AM

It works, I just did it.

Compare that video using the two links below (paste them into your browser and delete the space in the middle, this trick does not work if the forum in-lines the flash video, and if the space wasn't there, it would inline them)

http://www.you tube.com/watch?v=27mb_AyzGyQ
http://www.you tube.com/watch?v=27mb_AyzGyQ&fmt=18

Specifically pause it when the green shrub is visible, it looks sharper in the second one. Also you can see more detail in his facial hair in the second on.

**jason_jinx** · 05-18-08, 12:35 AM

damn it would benifit us the most to have it work in flash but it wont

still looks good if you take the time to open a new window

**GoreZiad** · 05-18-08, 05:11 AM

you have the option to choose definition on this one.
high or standard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqmlZBvzoKs

**hadji** · 05-19-08, 03:48 PM

Placebo.

The video is encoded at the time of upload. They cannot undo the encoding and make it look better, especially by adding something to the end of a url. There would have to be multiple encodings done, and all of them stored, all the time.

Want proof? Take any standard quality mp3. Re-encode it at 64kbps (or less, if you want). Now encode it back up to 192 and tell me that it's now better quality and sounds better.

If you want to argue that mp3 is a different can of worms, do it with video. Install xvid, grab whatever video you want, throw it into virtualdub, and encode it at a bitrate of, say, 200. Now, take that new file, throw it back into xvid, and crank it to 3000. Enjoy the worst 3000kbps video you've seen in your entire life.

**Latinman** · 05-19-08, 05:31 PM

I've been robbed 10 minutes of my life I want it back!

**Pineapple!** · 05-19-08, 05:45 PM

I refuse to watch this video. I bet that when I watch those videos on YouTube in HD, I've also qualified to win a free iPod because I was the 1,349,235th visitor to that site.

**Wurzzzz** · 05-20-08, 03:55 AM

Originally Posted by Pineapple!

I refuse to watch this video. I bet that when I watch those videos on YouTube in HD, I've also qualified to win a free iPod because I was the 1,349,235th visitor to that site.

But you ARE. We PROMISE. We're not lying like those others guys! The Dark One will always win out in the end! Wait...

Just click the damn banner.

P.S. I'm with hadji. My common sense said this was impossible and upon experiment my hypothesis was proven correct...If anything the video with the "&fmt=18" looks worse.