News - YouTube goes widescreen, feature-length movies to follow?

[HEXUS]

Google-owned YouTube has finally increased the size of its flash-based player to allow for 16:9 widescreen videos.

Read more.

[Funkstar]

Did you know you can also bump the quality of videos as well?

If you add "&ap=%2526fmt%3D18" to the URL (basically you need to URL encode the string &fmt=18) you get higher quality feeds if they are available. What isn't documented is the ability to add fmt=22 to the URL to get even higher quality feeds.

I think this is only for embedding though, not 100% sure

(Originally from Hackaday: http://hackaday.com/2008/11/21/youtu...uality-videos/)

[mycarsavw]

If you have Firefox, get yourself an addon called Greasemonkey and then get the following script - YousableTubeFix

Allows you to show the videos in all sorts of sizes (as well as many other options)

[Funkstar]

Nice one!

Also available for Opera! http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/36453

[sleepyhead]

Huzzah...my video on youtube is in the proper aspect (albeit, I got the pixel ratio wrong in the video so its abit squashed for 16:9).

[digit]

Nice one!

Also available for Opera! http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/36453

Excellent! I use you tube quite a lot so this will be very handy!