Smart Youtube plays new HD quality (720p, DVD quality) YouTube videos

Nov 21st, 2008

Youtube has just added support for high definition videos - 1280x720p resolution, stereo and the latest version of Smart Youtube plugin (v2.5) will play it. In order to use HD videos, you would use prefix the video URL with httpvhd://

New videos are best viewed full screen, beware they eat up a lot of bandwidth!

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4 Comments

  1. FerhatAKIN
    Feb 8th, 2009

    Thanks For Author ;)

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  2. William
    Nov 22nd, 2008

    Ok. Thanks. I am really impressed by most of the stuff you have done,hence i am now a subscriber.

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  3. Vladimir
    Nov 22nd, 2008

    Pay attention that not all videos support HD resolution.

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  4. William
    Nov 22nd, 2008

    Thanks for the plugin. However, the httpvhd// url format did not work for me as it kept showing this "video is no longer available" on a blank screen. But when i tried httpvh// url it works.

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