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View higher quality videos on YouTube
Authored by: jonahlee on Fri, Mar 21 2008 at 9:20AM PDT

You can also just go to YouTube, and in your settings there is a setting to always force the video to show higher quality. It seems like that would be the easiest method to use.

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View higher quality videos on YouTube
Authored by: alextm on Sat, Mar 22 2008 at 10:23AM PDT

You could chage the setting but if you are on slow internet, you may want the lowquality version most of the time

View higher quality videos on YouTube
Authored by: Fofer on Sat, Mar 22 2008 at 12:12PM PDT

There are three options:

-Choose my video quality dynamically based on the current connection speed.
-I have a slow connection. Never play higher-quality video.
-I have a fast connection. Always play higher-quality video when it's available.

http://www.youtube.com/video_quality_settings

This tip isn't necessary.

View higher quality videos on YouTube
Authored by: marriott on Mon, Mar 24 2008 at 7:46PM PDT

I have the "always play high-quality" setting checked on YouTube, and still do not get the high-quality version of videos. I can reload with "fmt=18" added and immediately see the difference in quality. I think this is an error on YouTube's part, and until it's fixed I'm using this script as a workaround.

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