Youtube high quality?

[43unite]

Thanks. Since adding the high quality and z12's filters I've been watching YouTube vids in widescreen by default. Just happened.

I thought that everyone else was, too. Guess not.

[Oddysey]

43;

Bear in mind that the referenced article is a few months old now, and when put together with the fact that Google/YouTube is constantly updating (read: experimenting with) their interface, it's almost a given that they were going to make widescreen an option that could be saved in Preferences. Being able to force the option from the address bar is better - no cookies required at that point.

But bookmarklets? That's even more behind the times than "IRL"!




Oddysey

[bugger]

embedded video no longer playing in HD mode?

e.g http://www.globalmotors.net/gm-and-segwa...portation/

[sidki3003]

Looks like the video server has changed. I see either *.*.googlevideo.com or a Google IP address. The quality param there is "itag" instead of "fmt". Same param values.

However, when i try to change non 18/22 formats to 18 or 22, i get a "403 Forbidden" response. I guess that's because the new "signature" param is a hash of the other params and needs to match.

Anyway, you could simply fake the Youtube preferences (PREF) cookie. The setting for HQ is "vq=2". The returned video is the one you also get by pressing the "HQ" button, if present. But *only* if that format still allows fast-forwarding to a not yet downloaded spot.

Or it's all entirely different, and i just haven't looked at it thoroughly enough.

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Regarding sidki-configs:
Personally, living outside US/Canada, i'm also tired of always seeing the "Suggested Language / Suggested Country Filter" box.

So, i'm suggesting this IncludeExclude entry:

Code:

www.youtube.com/    $SET(0=f_cookie.)$SET(sCookieP=1)$SET(sCookieF=PREF=gl=US&hl=en&vq=2)

Those who prefer localized Youtube versions, e.g. Spanish, could still get there by entering/bookmarking either http://www.youtube.es/ or http://www.youtube.com/?gl=ES&hl=es

[lnminente]

My last filter posted is still working perfect, it acts with the request sent to youtube to send us the video with the itag and his token(signature). It works for all the videos from youtube (embedder or not)... I updated it to don't change fmt22 to fmt18

When youtube has not an fmt=18 version (rare but sometimes occurs) the workaround is to to press the alt key while pressing play or seek.

Also tired for the cookies preferences from youtube will need to fake it too...

[lnminente]

I post here a method to obtain the token of a video changing the value of video_id

http://www.youtube.com/api2_rest?method=...U4zsGqClRk

[bugger]

Just want to let every know that you can set you qVal=37 to watch 1080i HD video now.

However it will kill your cpu if you have a old computer. Want to to check out flash 10.1 with gpu decoding support.