While some companies already offer amazing and fast loading video quality at a price, for the regular user YouTube’s video quality is average at best. This is set to change, however, with the arrival of new higher quality video formats at YouTube.
There are two new formats being introduced, known as format 6 and format 18. Eventually there will be a link to switch between the formats on the YouTube video page as there are for a restricted number of files already, but currently you will need to suffix your (newer) videos’ query string with either &fmt=6 or &fmt=18. The difference in video settings is as follows:
| Current | fmt=6 | fmt=18 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Video File type: | FLV | FLV | MP4 |
| Resolution: | 320 x 240 | 480 x 360 | 480 x 270 |
| Video: | 30fps ~200kbps Flash Sorenson | 30fps ~900kbps Flash Sorenson | 24fps ~512kbps h.264 |
| Sound: | 22KHz 64kbps Mono (MP3) | 44.1KHz 96kbps Mono (MP3) | 44.1KHz 128kbps Stereo (AAC) |
Unfortunately, there is currently no easy way to embed these new video formats into a web page. But rest assured, as soon as there is, we’ll let you know!
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