Downloading/saving Youtube videos

apeZ · 20 May 2009 at 19:29

Is there any way to improve the quality, because I tend to end up with quite a small file that drops sharply in quality once I try to play it at a larger size?

Any help appreciated, thanks.

Mattus · 21 May 2009 at 01:34

Not unless the video is available in HD. Standard YouTube videos are awful quality.

Amnesia · 21 May 2009 at 01:43

adding &fmt=18 to the end of the url sometimes works

snowdog · 21 May 2009 at 02:27

Amnesia said:
adding &fmt=18 to the end of the url sometimes works

Seconded.

Also sometimes &fmt=22 also works ( but only on new vids and obviously uploader must have uploaded in decent quality/res), which is 720p...

Rikki · 21 May 2009 at 02:43

You can save them with a bit of javascript code added to the address bar once the page is loaded. If you want that Ill look it out.

fornowagain · 21 May 2009 at 03:02

javascript:window.location.href = 'http://youtube.com/get_video?video_id=' + swfArgs['video_id'] + "&l=" + swfArgs['l'] + "&sk=" + swfArgs['sk'] + '&t=' + swfArgs['t'];