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How To Embed High Resolution YouTube Videos On Blog Or Website

Submitted by admin on Thu, 06/12/2008 - 03:37.

Earlier when YouTube was testing high resolution videos, we posted a hack to view YouTube videos in high quality by simply appending a parameter to the existing url, but there is no need for such hack now as YouTube provides option to view the high quality version of the video, However, YouTube still does not provide any method to let users embed high quality version of the video on there blog or website, but using the hack below you will be able to embed high resolution Youtube videos.

Normal Quality Video
High Quality Video

For the hack to work you will need to append &ap=%2526fmt%3D18 to the end of video clip’s URL's specified in “param” and “embed” tags in the default embed code provided by YouTube. For Example:

This is the default code (Normal Quality):

  1 <object width="425" height="344">
  2 <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Rw8gE3lnpLQ&hl=en"></param>
  3 <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Rw8gE3lnpLQ&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"></embed>
  4 </object>

This is the modified High Quality embed code (changes in bold):

  1 <object width="425" height="344">
  2 <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Rw8gE3lnpLQ&hl=en&ap=%2526fmt%3D18"></param>
  3 <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Rw8gE3lnpLQ&hl=en&ap=%2526fmt%3D18" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"></embed>
  4 </object>
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this does not work

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 07/03/2008 - 20:14.

this does not work (anymore?). Clicking the play button just shows a stalled flash waiting for a video file which never seems to come.

It works!

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 07/13/2008 - 04:57.

Ya it works! go to this to see! http://www.youtube.com/v/bqTPql8XndA&hl=en&ap=%2526fmt%3D18

This one is great!!!

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 07/23/2008 - 06:53.

It really works!!, this one is great. Thank you very much for this code.

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