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PianoScry

Sat Nov 01, 2008 8:18 pm


Downloading Youtubein HighQuality

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We all (most of us) know the trick of adding "fmt=18" to the end of the urls to get much better quality, and better sound.

How can I download these videos keeping them in that highquality? When I download them using the firefox add on "better youtube' it seems to put them back into old sound/video quality.

Having the better audio is very important in my situations.
Thanks.


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[Gandalf]

Sun Nov 02, 2008 3:06 am


RE:Downloading Youtubein HighQuality

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Here's a link:
http://blog.jimmyr.com/High_Quality_on_Youtube_11_2008.php

Haven't tested it myself.


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PianoScry

Sun Nov 02, 2008 12:10 pm


RE:Downloading Youtubein HighQuality

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I actually have that firefox extention he suggests... and it downloads it back into Mono sound :(


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Zren

Sun Nov 02, 2008 11:04 pm


Re: Downloading Youtubein HighQuality

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I tried this on a a few videos. It may not be foolproof but whatever.
It downloads in MP4 quality.

1. Download [url=https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2489]CacheViewer
2. Using your &fmt=18 php trick, load the video. Watch the url in the status bar to find out where the file is located.
3. Open up CacheViewer [Tools -> Cacheviewer]
4. In the Filter: Enter some major keywords from the url. [eg. googlevideo]
5. Double click the one you want. Under MIME/Type it should read video/mp4. The download ought to be fast since you've already technically downloaded it and it's still in Firefoxes cache.