The YouTube Holy Grail!

In November, YouTube announced plans for HD. They’re now testing it in some of their videos. Add &fmt=18 to the end of a YouTube video page URL to see if an HD version is available. Ergo this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQzUsTFqtW0

…becomes this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQzUsTFqtW0&fmt=18

If an HD version isn’t available yet, the regular version will play.

To get an HD embed, add &ap=%2526fmt%3D18 to each of the two instances of the video URL in the code. Ergo this:



Will become this: