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  • dbloc

    is this possible anymore. It seems like nothing is working for me.

    Feb 1, 12, 12:13 p.m. – Permalink
  • zaq

    vimeo.com

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    Dog-earFeb 1, 12, 12:16 p.m. – Permalink
  • Gminor

    yeah of coarse its possible. not on QBN mind you but on a regular site sure why not

    • is the actual video in HD?– Gminor
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    Dog-earFeb 1, 12, 12:21 p.m. – Permalink
  • dbloc

    yes it is in HD, but can't figure out what to add to the code to make it play in HD. It seems that everything I find online is deprecated

    • go to the video on youtube and click 'share' and then 'embed' and there are a bunch of size and embed options for the code– Gminor1/2
      code.– Gminor2/2
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    Dog-earFeb 1, 12, 12:29 p.m. – Permalink
  • Miguex

    it will play in HD if you embed it at least in 720i, if it's smaller, then it wont.

    also you can tell it to play automatically too

    • how do you embed at least 720i? Are you talking about 720px wide?– dbloc1/3
      720i is the resolution right?– dbloc2/3
      ^– Gminor3/3
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    Dog-earFeb 1, 12, 12:30 p.m. – Permalink
  • Miguex

    http://asset2.cbsistatic.com/cnwk.1d/i/bto/20081120/YouTubeHD-vertical.png

    http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_…

    this is from 2008 though, I think now its directly on the custom/ embed settings

    • < tried it. same results.– dbloc
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    Dog-earFeb 1, 12, 12:32 p.m. – Permalink
  • dbloc

    so you can't force it to play 1080p with an embed height of 480?

    • it'll only have an option to play 1080p if it was originally uploaded at that size– Gminor1/3
      You won't be seeing it at HD if you embed it smaller, so it won't bother serving it. Be a waste.– mikotondria32/3
      hmm ok– dbloc3/3
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    Dog-earFeb 1, 12, 12:50 p.m. – Permalink
  • dbloc

    So I guess for it to start playing at 1080p it has to be sized at a height of 1080.

    • the video has to be made and uploaded at that size for it to play like that. don't confuse the size on the site with the size of the video– Gminor1/2
      the video.– Gminor2/2
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    Dog-earFeb 1, 12, 1:46 p.m. – Permalink
  • Miguex

    Like Gminor said, the video has to be uploaded in HD in order to play HD, but. If you are not going to embed it in HD (1080i or 720i) then there's no point in playing HD content on a smaller size other than waste bandwidth and make your viewers wait longer for the video to download. You will not get better quality unless you watch it a the size is intended to.

    In theory, if you try to play a 1080i movie on a 640 by 420 space, everything would look distorded, compressed and most likely skewed, that's why youtube will automatically stream a re-rendered version for your right size.

    A good analogy will be, to scale up a 72dpi image to a 300dpi magazine, it would just not work (unless you have that "Enhance" feature from those police shows).

    Or in the opposite, when you scale down a 300dpi image about 50% in photoshop and you still have the scaling handles (before you hit enter) the image looks bad, once you hit enter, photoshop re-renders that image to be displayed at that size.

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    Dog-earFeb 1, 12, 2:14 p.m. – Permalink
  • Gminor

    If you just want a little hd video too embed on a site it should just be 720 and then sized how you want on the site. is the video yours or someone else's you can't change?

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    Dog-earFeb 1, 12, 2:32 p.m. – Permalink
  • dbloc

    Well the guy that made the video wants to see it played in HD on the website. The embed size in 853X480. The original video uploaded to youTube was 1920 x 1080. I guess what I'm asking is can it stay at 853X480 and still show that it's playing in HD.

    • i guess it should be playing in hd already.– Gminor1/2
      i don't get what the problem is– Gminor2/2
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    Dog-earFeb 1, 12, 2:34 p.m. – Permalink
  • dbloc

    yeah it was originally playing in 360p when I had it sized a little smaller. I increased the height to 480px, and now it plays in 480p. I did another test and sized to a height of 720 and it played it at 720p.

    I was hoping there was a way to force it to play the better resolution at a smaller size

    • 480p is not HD, correct?– dbloc1/3
      maybe I'm just not understanding the concept.– dbloc2/3
      i see what you are saying now, the quality settings change when embeded, i have no idea why or how to stop it– Gminor3/3
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    Dog-earFeb 1, 12, 2:42 p.m. – Permalink
  • Gminor

    I think its just the default and the user has the option to change to it to 1080 if they want.

    • it definitely is. I'd like to force it to HD if possible though– dbloc
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    Dog-earFeb 1, 12, 2:53 p.m. – Permalink
  • Gminor

    'Link directly to and embed HD YouTube videos'

    http://www.h3xed.com/web-and-int…

    This might be what you want, I think maybe possibly. It mentions how to link to the 1080 video so maybe add "&vq=hd1080" to the URL in the embed code. Let me know, this is relevant to my interests.

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    Dog-earFeb 1, 12, 3:01 p.m. – Permalink
  • Gminor

    so did you figure this out?

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    Dog-earFeb 2, 12, 10:59 a.m. – Permalink
  • dbloc

    nope ended up going with vimeo.

    • i assume it does this naturally... i'm glad I went through helping you though because I learned about that setting default– Gminor1/2
      thanks!– dbloc2/2
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    Dog-earFeb 2, 12, 11:03 a.m. – Permalink
  • Gminor

    'YouTube's logic for not letting you default to higher quality resolutions is simply that you shouldn't need to. If the embedded player size is 640 x 360, you shouldn't need a 1280x 720 quality video.' i read more of the link i posted, i just thought linking the hd video would work but no, can't force it i guess.

    • yeah that kinda sucks. Oh well Vimeo it is.– dbloc
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    Dog-earFeb 2, 12, 11:19 a.m. – Permalink

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