The DV Show Podcast

It seems YouTube is currently offering Higher Quality (up to 850 kbit/s A+V) videos to certain locations only, and testing out several different quality formats.

You can see if your video has different versions offered by YouTube, by adding “&fmt=18″ or “&fmt=6″ to the end of the URL, like in these examples:

Example 1

Here is a low quality 320×240. When you add the secret code at the end, it gives you this which turns it into 480×360 high-bandwidth material, and higher quality audio!

Example 2

This is low quality 320×240. And adding the code gives you this.

Now uploading in FLV format could be a questionable activity, since obviously Youtube will convert your video in more than 1 version so they can decide which one to offer to the viewer. The only downside noticed until now is that they don’t offer stereo-audio.