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Here are some Great Tricks!!!
10 Youtube URL Tricks You Should Know About:

1. View high quality videos
2. Embed Higher Quality Videos
3. Cut the chase and link to the interesting part
4. Hide the search box
5. Embed only a part of Video
6. Autoplay an embedded video
7. Loop an embedded video
8. Disable Related Videos
9. Bypass Youtube Regional Filtering
10. Download Video


1. View high quality videos
Youtube gives you the option to switch to high quality videos for some of the videos, however you can check if a video is available in high quality format by appending ‘&fmt=18′(stereo, 480 x 270 resolution) or ‘&fmt=22′(stereo, 1280 x 720 resolution) for even higher quality.

2. Embed Higher Quality Videos
While the above trick works for playback, if however you want to embed hig quality videos you need to append “&ap=%2526fmt%3D18″ and “&ap=%2526fmt%3D22″ to the embed url.

3. Cut the chase and link to the interesting part
Linking to a video where the real action starts at 3 minutes 22 seconds, wondered if you could make it start at 03:22? You are in luck. All you have to do is add #t=03m22s (#t=XXmYYs for XX mins and YY seconds) to the end of the URL.

4. Hide the search box
The search box appears when you hover over an embedded video. To hide the search box add ‘&showsearch=0′ to the embed url.

5. Embed only a part of Video
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.

6. Autoplay an embedded video
Normally when you embed a Youtube video and load the page, the player is loaded and it sits there waiting for you to hit the play button. You can make the video play automatically by adding ‘&autoplay=1′ to the url part of the embed code.

7. Loop an embedded video
Append ‘&loop=1′ to make the video start again without user intervention after it reaches the end.

8. Disable Related Videos
Publishing your content in the form of Youtube video? Don’t want people to see other people’s content that may be related but may as well be in competition to you? Just add ‘&rel=0′ to the end of the url part of the embed code and you just turned off the related video suggestions!

9. Bypass Youtube Regional Filtering
Some videos are only available in certain parts of the world. Your IP Address is used to determine your location and then allow or deny access to the video. Change the url from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<somecode> to http://www.youtube.com/v/<somecode>

10. Download Video
Although not inherently a youtube trick but useful all the same for downloading videos. Just change youtube to kickyoutube in the url of the video and it will take you to kickyoutube.com with all the options for downloading the video you were watching.


All these can be found Here:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-youtube-url-tricks-you-should-know-about/
There are some extra graphics on the site to help with the explanations!</somecode></somecode>
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*quality copypasta


written by berticus  | 4 months 3 weeks ago | CH
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Awarding Sagemind with one star point for this contribution to VideoSift - declared quality by berticus.


written by siftbot  | 4 months 3 weeks ago | CH
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*promote

Know this, ye youtubers of noobility!


written by gwiz665  | 4 months 3 weeks ago | CH
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Promoting this Sift Talk post - promote requested by gwiz665.


written by siftbot  | 4 months 3 weeks ago | CH
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Good post.


written by Drax  | 4 months 3 weeks ago | CH
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You know, I've had the info bookmarked and always meant to post it but forgot, I was just going through all my video bookmarks and came across it again so i finaly got around to it!

Hope it helps everyone out,
Cheers!


written by Sagemind  | 4 months 3 weeks ago | CH
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Nice!
Could these 3
‘&showsearch=0′
‘&rel=0′
http://www.youtube.com/v/<somecode>
be automatically applied to a video when submitting to VS? We already have the HQ/height/width automation..


written by Eklek  | 4 months 3 weeks ago | CH
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