10 Ways To Customize You Tube

Apr 18 2009

Published by Dany at 6:13 pm under Video

Improve You Tube

You Tube has introduced a raft of changes in the last few months. Most have led to better looking videos.

Today, MakeUseOf.com posted a cheat sheet of URL tricks that will allow you to take advantage of this improved video resolution when when you embed videos on your own site or blog.

We’ve mentioned some of these before. Here’s a round up of the most useful from previous posts and from MakeUseOf’s list:

BETTER QUALITY

1 Switch to High Quality on You Tube by adding ‘&fmt=18? (stereo, 480 x 270 resolution) to the end of the URL. For High Definition, use ‘&fmt=22? (stereo, 1280 x 720 resolution).

2. Embed Higher Quality Videos To embed HQ videos on your own site,add “&ap=%2526fmt%3D18? to the embed code. For HD, add “&ap=%2526fmt%3D22?

IMPROVE THE YOU TUBE PLAYER

3. Hide The Search Box. If the new Search Box makes you crazy, just add ‘&showsearch=0? to the embed code.

CUE UP THE RELEVANT SECTION

4. There is no need to suffer through an overly long video just to find the relevant 30 seconds. You can cue up the desired parts of any video by addding #t=XXmYYs ( Change XX mYYs to the correct minutes and seconds where you want the video to begin palying. ) to the end of the URL. For instance, if you want a video to begin 2 minutes and5 seconds in, add #02m05s to the URL.

5. Embed only the part of a video that you want. Just append ‘&start=30? to skip first 30s of the video. In general you can modify the value after start= to the number of seconds you want to skip the video for.

DUMP RELATED VIDEOS

Tired of You Tube luring viewers away from ur site? Get rid of the Related Videos bar that shows at the end. Add ‘&rel=0? to the end of the url part of the embed code.

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