YouTube Hack: How to make your videos to HQ?

March 2008, YouTube launches their new video format called HQ or High Quality. This new video format offers a better video definition (480x360) in the AVC format for any video uploaded after this date.

According to the YouTube official blog, YouTube will decide which videos are capable of this improved quality based on the standard of the original upload. Users can choose "always show me higher quality when available" in their Account pages to switch automatically to the better quality.

So it's possible because YouTube will choose which video would be in HQ, but there is a solution. I found this video on YouTube, specifically at my Home page of my YouTube account shows how to make any video into a HQ.



The code is simple. Just place this "&fmt=18" to a URL of the video and BOOM! a HQ video.