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It'd be great if this could be implemented in such a way that I could ask my users to:

A) Only play low-quality video, I have a slow connection
B) Always play high-quality where available, my connection is fast
C) Always play HD, my connection is clearly japanese-standard!

Whilst also keeping API calls to a minimum.

Note: How will this implementation effect the trick of using format=5 to filter out
embed disabled and claimed clips?

PS. Should the exposure of HQ and HD in the data API be a seperate request to this
chromeless player issue?

The format would still be '5' since that just means "Flash". The convenient thing
about having a player as opposed to a raw FLV is that we don't have to have you play
the format game when it comes to toggling HQ/HD.

To answer your second question - I believe it is a separate issue. I created one
(Issue 1006) 

 Issue 999  has been merged into this issue.

I think there should be at least a way for the content creators to embed their own 
videos in HQ. Please make miracles google devs and find a not-so-awkward way to 
authenticate it.

Looking forward to this feature add. Thanks.

> I think there should be at least a way for the content creators to
> embed their own videos in HQ. Please make miracles google devs and
> find a not-so-awkward way to authenticate it.
You actually can upload your content on your own host with your own player, I don't
think that's easy to restrict access to authors domains without introducing yet
another api-key-requirement for youtube accounts.

Regards,

> DracoBlue23
even with my dedicated 100mbit server if a vid gets popular, just half a dozen fios 
connections and my whole server and subsite's bandwidth comes to a crawl. Getting a 
CDN is risky because if something gets popular suddenly I'm out of money. There's a 
few HQ hosts out there, even if they limit how much you can upload at once so I 
believe youtube should provide competition at some point. The chromeless API provides 
a lot of convenience that would be a hassle to implement from scratch, even if I 
started working off an open source flash player. If everyone that watches my videos 
regularly is from youtube and my main source of revenue is from google it feels 
unnatural to have a website with video embeds for HQ to be from some other site.

Hello,

You can actually do this already by adding "&fmt=18" to a videoid and passing it to a loadVideoById call. Is this 
intentional or a side-effect of the videoid not being sanitized before being passed along to the server?

Thanks,
Navdeep Bains

I would call that an unintentional side-effect, so don't be upset if it stops working. :)

Hello,

I suspected as much. Would you recommend not relying on this behavior at all -- not even as an option 
presented to the user? In other words, should I expect the player to fail to play altogether when passed a videoid 
formatted this way? Or is it OK to assume graceful fallback to regular quality?

Thanks,
Navdeep Bains

some videos with certain specs don't have different formats available, even though 
it's a minority. Those vids didn't play at when I used to use a similar trick on the 
embed player before it had an HQ option. Given this feature request is all about 
asking for a reliable way to get HQ, I doubt they'd leave the 'unintentional side-
effect' as an option or add functionality to it, otherwise this issue would have been 
closed by now.

When this side-effect goes away, I believe it will fail back to regular quality,
though there is no harm in sanitizing the value you pass loadVideoById().

It seems this side effect is already gone away for the chromeless player, at least.

any updates on this? I'd love to use chromeless hd videos in my project..

HighQuality would be FANTASTIC :) 
Sites like Vimeo is gaining on YouTube because of the high bitrate, it would be great
to get access to the HQ material via chromeless player.

Please !

Realy need Chromeless HD! pls.

This feature would really be great, not only for the better image, but also for
better sound encoding!

Yup, this one would be really useful!

Please Hq is great and i want to my website.

It will be great if we can access HD and HQ videos

HD playback in the chromeless player is already possible (&hd=1)
HQ playback isn't...

HQ playback is definitely something I would like to have! Please fix this!

It is needed. When we have same functionality in the basic embeded player, why not 
in Chromeless?

Chromeless is suppose to be more powerful, isn't it?

please

I can't get HD content in the chromeless player. I'm using code like so:

youtubeMovie.loadVideoById(vid + "&hd=1");

it's just regular type. thoughts?

needed

Yes please.

This would add much more versatility to embedding YouTube video in web apps.

any word from the devs on this request?

It would definitely give more choices to embed videos....

--
Shishir
http://www.shishirk.com

Would be a very welcome addition!

Yes, this feature is very needed! 

+1 for HQ in the chromeless player

any updates on this?!

+1 Are the ppl at youtube even reading this ?

While they may or may not read such "plus one" comments, they have stated that VOTING
is what is preferred.

You do that by clicking on the STAR - just to the left of the issue number - so that
it turns yellow in color.

I thought that it was netiquette here to mark your star rating with a +1 in the
comment. thanks for the heads up :) 
-- 
I'm waiting for this feature for months now :(

is it possible that the chromeless player already plays "hq" videos by default?

if i listen to an audio track on original youtube with default quality and in my
chromeless player example the audio sounds better in my app...

but i havent figured out yet how to use 720p (HD) streams on my site.


come on youtube guys - please extend your chromeless player + api for supporting this
request...

Requesting HD Chromeless so we can do some cool stuff!

HD chromelss player please!!!!

i would want an api to tell me if the video is available in hq/hd

+1 to have a supported hq/hd switch for the player. also +1 for having this info
returned throgh the search response json data. Also, lets say i wanna try the
workaround of &fmt=18 in loadVideoById() how can i tell in chromeless player if it
works, just listen to the sound and see a difference?

one more question. im confised about hq in the title vs. hq button of the player.
what do they mean?

 Issue 1270  has been merged into this issue.

@dalmian; well, basically yeah, but that workaround has been disabled afaik :(

As I mentioned on June 3, we could do some very cool things with this feature at
www.stagegold.com

It would be great if we have HD options in chromeless player

Are you planning to include information about video quality into search api?

.

The standard embedded player is just awfull.

Full of bugs,ugly and cant be nicely integrated
with the design of a page because it's not fully
color-configurable...also skinning is something YT doesn't know about.

Also the buttons are in the wrong places...they even change
places depending on the showing-up of HD/HQ buttons
..never seen a player where the buttons change positions.

The click trough to YT is awful and many times occurs un-intended
because of slow reaction when in HD-mode.

It would be handy if player could know the quality (LQ,HQ,HD)
or better the format (4:3 or 16:9) so it could dynamically change it's size
that could avoid those black top and lower-bars.

Also the switching between LQ,HQ,HD could be better implemented as with
the standard player...in addition at Youtube site in preferences there
should be an additional setting : " Yes always play in HD " or 
""always play in highest quality" where that also includes HD 
currently that does not include HD ...in that case the function of the HD-button 
would be the other way around as it is now
..pressing it would fall back to non-HD...much better since you cant rely on a 
visitor keeping on pressing that HD-button for every new video...specially in a 
playlist.

Yes please make HD for the API's/Chromeless so we could enjoy HD in a much better 
way then it's currently...it should do playlists also.

Big request would be for Youtube to make one complete example player (HD !)
that could be used and configured by the implementer...in a easy way
i'm struggling for almost 1 year now and i cant get the standard player to work 
perfect...but i'm not an API guy..to complicated for me...so i need that example.


HD chromeless with usable example please !!!

Dj Mambito

doesn't seem like anyone's getting tired of this issue - any more word on this, yt?

What's going on? It's as if YT wants people who implemented to chromeless player on 
their sites to switch back to the UGLY embedded player, just to have HD as HD becomes 
more and more standard.

Right? In the meantime I'm just using Vimeo, they have some HD embedding options.

Does putting &ftm=18 to the search request exclude videos from results that are not 
availeb in HQ (kind of like the format=5 exludes the non embeddable)? 

This is addressed with the release of the ActionScript 3 chromeless player API, which
supports methods for determining available playback quality levels and switching
between them:
http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/flash_api_reference.html#Playback_quality

Well, there's still no JavaScript support. Think of the cheapskates that don't want to 
resort to Flash! D:

keiji: Isn't this what you need? http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/js_api_reference.html#Playback_quality

what u mean there's still no javascript support? player.setPlaybackQuality() - thats 
a javascript function

non of the values for suggested quality say anything about the audio quality
•Quality level small: Player resolution less than 640px by 360px.
•Quality level medium: Minimum player resolution of 640px by 360px.
•Quality level large: Minimum player resolution of 854px by 480px.
•Quality level hd720: Minimum player resolution of 1280px by 720px.
•Quality level default: YouTube selects the appropriate playback quality

if I want small but audio quality best how do i do that? whats the difference in 
audio qality of small vs medium for example?

...Oh, I didn't see that. Thought it was specific to Flash.

dalimian: guessing from how YouTube URL formats work (fmt=18 / fmt=22) medium would 
probably get you fmt=18 quality audio.

I find it confusing.

After reading all, one could conclude that playing HD on a website
would only be possible if the player size is such that it can hold
at least a video with a size of 1280 x 729 px

But i could play a HD-video independent of what the size of the PLAYER itself is.

Said different, i could very well play a HD video with a resolution 
of 1280 x 720 in a player that only accomodates half or a 1/4 or 1/8 of that size,

So confusion exists because there's 2 different terms:

1) Video-resolution.

2) Video-player-size.

before quality was stated as fmt=xx 
..now we are talking in terms of resolution
this causes confusion.

I would not mind a more understandable explanation
since right now it appears as if you need to set the player-size
to the same value as the video-resulution...which is not true ofcourse.


@dalimian

Yes i agree its confusing...all i know is that best audio
sits inside best video...so for best audio you use best video 
(highest available resolution)
but you can set the player-size to whatever you want...i understand however that
certain sizes are preferred since these might reduce processor-load (less re-
calculation)...i would not mind if youtube would explain that too (better)
since this info cannot be found anywhere.

After having asked that a million times i did not get an answer to that...allthough 
some info on that can be found in the embeddding-code examples at a youtube-page 
where you can grab the embed-code for the standard-player, it mentions a few sizes.
i suppose these are optimized for less as possible processor-load (re-calculating)
Not shure how to find optimal sizes that are inbetween mentioned example sizes.

If a video is available in, say, hd720 quality, you can request that quality regardless 
of the pixel dimensions of your player. If you request hd720 and your video player is 
smaller than 1280px by 720px, though, the video will have to be automatically 
subsampled by the Flash player to scale it down to the smaller size. This will end up 
taking up extra processor cycles on user's machines, and the result won't look any 
better than using the next-lower video quality, so it's not something we'd 
recommend you do.

You've got a couple of different approaches you can take. You can just pick a specific 
player size (perhaps using the YouTube to determine whether the video is 
widescreen and choosing a 16:9 or 4:3 ration depending on the results) and then rely 
on the Player API's default behavior to choose the video quality that is most 
appropriate for that player size and the user's machine.

Alternatively, you can call getPlaybackQuality() (though only after the video has 
started playing at the default quality, since getPlaybackQuality() on a cued video 
always returns "medium"). You can then present the user with a UI that displays the 
available quality levels and allows them to switch between those levels. When you 
switch a quality level, you should also switch the player's dimensions to the minimum 
player resolutions we document so that the user can actually take advantage of the 
higher video quality.