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Downloading high resolution YouTube videos
For those who want to know how to download YouTube videos in a variety of quality formats, the instructions are below.
There are three qualities of videos YT offers: Standard, HQ and HD. Their properties are described in the table in the figure below.
When watching a YT video, code needs to be inserted into the address bar for it to download.
To download a HQ video, there are two possible codes to enter—use the other if one doesn’t work.
javascript:window.location.href = 'http://youtube.com/get_video?video_id=' + swfArgs['video_id'] + "&fmt=18" + "&l=" + swfArgs['l'] + "&sk=" + swfArgs['sk'] + '&t=' + swfArgs['t'];
OR
javascript:window.location.href = 'http://youtube.com/get_video?video_id=' + swfArgs['video_id'] + "&fmt=18" + "&l=" + swfArgs['l'] + "&sk=" + swfArgs['sk'] + '&fmt_map' + swfArgs['fmt_map'] + '&t=' + swfArgs['t'];
To download an HD video, enter:
javascript:window.location.href = 'http://youtube.com/get_video?video_id=' + swfArgs['video_id'] + "&fmt=22" + "&l=" + swfArgs['l'] + "&sk=" + swfArgs['sk'] + '&t=' + swfArgs['t'];
To automate this code insertion, a simple bookmark button can be created in Firefox (and possibly other browsers but they aren’t covered here).
Right-click on the area below the address bar in Firefox and select New Bookmark… as shown in the figure below. Then in the dialogue that appears, enter a name, and paste the corresponding code from above. Three buttons can be made in this way for each code piece above (see figure).
When a button is pressed when watching a YT video, it will download in the quality specified.
Obviously, you can only download an HD video if the video was uploaded at that quality, i.e. if there is a “watch in HD” link at the bottom right of the video. HQ can always be downloaded.
See here for other YT video related info.
Xhris
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Re: Downloading high resolution YouTube videos
Cheers Xhris.
Works fine in Google Chrome too.
Re: Downloading high resolution YouTube videos
Thank you very much !
Trying to view videos with a dial-up just doesn't work..... to have them on my own PC and then replay if/when needed is great. Broadband in our neck of the woods is still very pricey.
Yvonne