Comments on: Kick YouTube in the pants.

Kick YouTube in the pants.

tracert — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:08:27 -0800

Psst. Hey, wanna know secret? YouTube is offering 720p HD streaming on select videos.

Also you can watch them in widescreen. To modify cookies on Firefox, you can use this plugin. Higher quality videos will require more bandwidth and a better computer, but the results are pretty good. For example: normal, better, best.

By: DU

DU — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:16:11 -0800

How long before they turn this off, re-obscure it or charge for it?

By: kuujjuarapik

kuujjuarapik — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:40:25 -0800

SLYTHD

By: rokusan

rokusan — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:42:09 -0800

Is this gonna clog up the tubes and delay my internets?

By: acro

acro — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:52:35 -0800

Is this the Kottke hack? i.e. append &fmt=18 onto the end of the YouTube URL. //Edit/ Ah. now you append &fmt=22

By: fixedgear

fixedgear — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:12:21 -0800

What is the hack for justin.tv?

By: krinklyfig

krinklyfig — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:55:30 -0800

Whoa ... Webmonkey is still around? I thought Lycos killed it.

By: ryoshu

ryoshu — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:55:59 -0800

What is the hack for justin.tv? &fmt=handfulofsleepingpills

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:56:28 -0800

If by secret you mean in every single feed in my RSS reader, even the non-technical ones?

By: archagon

archagon — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:57:04 -0800

Excellent news! Also, love the "Dancing" video.

By: archagon

archagon — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:01:58 -0800

Scratch that, the "Dancing" video is amazing. I can't believe I've never seen it before.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:23:25 -0800

Sweet. I just finished uploading my hacked blu-ray "WALL-E".

By: marsha56

marsha56 — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:23:31 -0800

Love that Dancing video. Seen it before, but not for awhile, and it was really nice to see it again. And it was amazing how MUCH better it was in HD. BUT, it just takes too long to load. Don't think I'd care enough about most videos to want to wait for the longer load time. Also, the motion is jerky. It's probably jerky in regular def online videos too, but I think I notice it more when the picture resolution is so stunning. Or it's just my computer. Thanks for posting this.

By: yeoz

yeoz — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:10:51 -0800

Hahahaha, and people were calling me insane for uploading 1GB 720p files to youtube. Oh the quality is amazing :D

By: DenOfSizer

DenOfSizer — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:00:11 -0800

I'm an idjit. Can someone just explain to me how to do this with, like, just clicking on something?

By: lothar

lothar — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:30:30 -0800

Incredibly useful, especially when added to the Mozilla "video downloader" plugin. I've been using an entirely different workaround when corporate clients insist on using YouTube content that they "have permission for". Let's see, now I just need to hope that MontyPython used 720p files, and do a wget across the whole (&22) collection...

By: box

box — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:50:35 -0800

The Greasemonkey crowd is already on top of it.

By: Sticherbeast

Sticherbeast — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:45:52 -0800

That dancing video is pretty ace. Nifty about the 720p, but man, that dancing.

By: Merik

Merik — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:55:29 -0800

i have seen the "where the heck is matt" video at least a half dozen times. And every time, I sit through the whole thing with a smile, forlorn eyes, and welling tears.

By: exhilaration

exhilaration — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 10:38:24 -0800

Wow, Vimeo is screwed.