YouTube is now in High Definition - no more muddy videos!

Recently they introduced their "high quality" videos (under the video, you can choose to view in "high quality", and very recently, introduced High Definition quality!

And I must say, I'm impressed - it's looking good!

So, How do you Upload Video in HD to Youtube?

For the highest quality, YouTube now recommends the following setting for your video:

MPEG4 (DivX, Xvid, H.264) format
1280×720 resolution
128k Mono or 320k Stereo MP3/AAC audio
24,25 or 30 frames per second
Up to 1GB file size and 10 min. duration
YouTube accepts a wide range of video file formats such as .WMV, .AVI and .MOV but you may get the best results from converting your file to MPEG4 video with MP3 audio.

What if you want to force HD playback when linking to a Youtube video?

Simple. All you need to do is to append the following after the url string. So, instead of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EutKrKTfLk, you would have http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EutKrKTfLk&fmt=

&fmt=6 - increases the resolution from 320×240 to 448×336, Flash 7 video @ 900Kbps; audio @ 44.1KHz 96Kbps Mono CBR.
&fmt=18 - increases the resolution to 480×360, H.264 video @ 512Kbps; audio @ 44.1KHz 128Kbps Stereo.
&fmt=22 - increases the resolution to 1280×720 (720p), H.264 video @ 1024Kbps; audio @ 44.1KHz 232Kbps Stereo.

What if you want to embed Youtube videos in HD?

Again, simple. All you need to do is make certain that &ap=%2526fmt%3D22 3 is appended to the URL string in the embed code.