Does the HD Plugin work with YouTube?

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Apr. 12, 2009Gareth

Guys,

I also posted this in the General forum too, I wasn't sure of the best place to post it.

Apologies if this is a silly question.

Does the HD plugin work & JW Player 4.4 work with Youtube?

Like a lot of people here, I've been using the PHP scripts to download the FLV/MP4 directly from youtube in order to make sure that my videos play by default in HQ/HD from YouTube.

I was hoping the JW Player 4.4 and the HD plugin will eliminate the need for any PHP workarounds, and I can view YouTube videos in HQ/HD by default.

Any one know?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Gareth

Apr. 12, 2009LennonNZ

I posted this on the other forum as well but basically as youtube don't supply the HQ/HD version via their APi the answer is no

Apr. 13, 2009PabloS

LennonNZ has it right - until YouTube supports HQ/HD in their chromeless API player, the JW Player (HD plugin or not) won't be able to support it.

Apr. 13, 2009Gareth

Ok, thanks for the feedback. It's appreciated.

Gareth

Apr. 18, 2009jakall

"Like a lot of people here, I've been using the PHP scripts to download the FLV/MP4 directly from youtube"

Could you give me this code?

Aug. 07, 2009kato

I just noticed a new youtube "embed in HD" option for newly uploaded HD videos... are they supplying the HQ/HD version via their API?

Aug. 10, 2009Zachary Ozer

Looking at the reference materials (http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/flash_api_reference.html), it appears that the answer is no.

Sorry!

Oct. 28, 2009Gino

Here the Youtube api link with the HD option
http://code.google.com/intl/fr/apis/youtube/player_parameters.html#hd

You can anable HD buton this way with the youtube player
&hd=1
HD by default

Ex: http://startclip.com/details-youtube-player.php?id=bAuUaGm2Znc

Here the hd link working, i didn't make it autoplay because we can see it's not hd just until we press play.
You will see the Youtube HD logo appear.
http://www.youtube.com/v/bAuUaGm2Znc?fs=1&hd=1

Then youtube allow HD to be played on our website.

May be we can find the way to get this hd video link for the JW player

Oct. 29, 2009Zachary Ozer

We'll investigate this for the 5.1 release:

http://developer.longtailvideo.com/trac/ticket/580

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