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Improve Video Quality with Easy YouTube URL Addition

I found this lovely YouTube video tip at LifeHacker. The tip easily improves the quality of a YouTube video.

All you need to do is copy and paste:

&fmt=18

at the end of the URL of the video you are watching. For example, here is a YouTube Video:

ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hChq5drjQl4

All you do is paste “&fmt=18″ at the end of the URL, and you get:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hChq5drjQl4&fmt=18

Easy!

Click on each link above, and you’ll see and hear the same video, but with a difference in video and sound quality.

For example, here’s a screenshot of one frame of the video without the hack:

And here’s a screenshot of the same frame with the hack:

Notice the sharper details — and the option to “watch this video in lower quality for faster playback.” Handy!

I don’t know how long this little tip will work — but if you need to boost the quality to see some visual details or bump up the sound quality in a training video, this hack works nicely… for a while. It’s quite likely that YouTube will soon allow you to select “video quality” as a regular option.

Until then, when you need a bit of a boost, give this little URL hack a whirl!

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