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YouTube adds "high quality" toggle to embedded video player
YouTube has been offering viewer the choice to watch some videos in "high quality" for a few months now. High quality videos aren't exactly high definition, they're just encoded at higher bit rates than your typical YouTube video. That means the video will probably look a bit sharper and cleaner.Up until recently, you could only watch high quality videos by visiting YouTube or if you happened to run across a site where someone applied a little magic trick to their embedded videos. But now YouTube has added a new feature to its embedded video player that lets you toggle between high and normal quality videos wherever you happen to find them.
All you have to do is click play to start a video and then click the menu button in the bottom right corner of the playback window. You'll notice a box that says HQ. If it's grayed out, it means the video you're watching isn't available in high quality. But if it's black, it means you can click to watch the higher quality version of the video.
You can check out an example after the break.
[via CrunchGear]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Joe H said 11:16AM on 1-24-2009
Just wanted to say, this option instantly crashes my firefox. Hopefully the kinks are worked out.
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Bob S said 11:33AM on 1-24-2009
No problems with Firefox for me. (3.0.5)
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supernickzero said 1:16PM on 1-24-2009
It crashes my Firefox instantly as well.
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texyen said 12:27PM on 1-24-2009
Seems to have been removed.
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bernie16wb said 12:54PM on 1-24-2009
Firefox 3.05 is working fine for me.
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RUGRLN said 8:44AM on 1-25-2009
Uhh...there's no HQ option for that vid you embedded?!
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Brad Linder said 8:51AM on 1-25-2009
You have to start playing the video before the HQ option shows up in the menu. I know it's odd, but that's the way it works.
RUGRLN said 2:02PM on 1-25-2009
@BradLinder
That ain't too clever...oh well thanks for pointing it out!