Comments on: YouTube "High Quality" plays audio in mono not stereo

By: Steve Eckert

Steve Eckert — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:53:19 +0000

&fmt=22 is now supported which is youtubes "HD" version, only on a selected amount of new videos, it streams 128 kbps STEREO aac format, not mono 96 kbps mp3 like the "High quality" videos, which is still terrible.

By: Klaatu

Klaatu — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:16:18 +0000

I just don't get what's going on over there at You Tube. A couple of my uploads last week played STEREO by default (I don't know how, fluke?) I tried immediately to duplicate this lucky stroke with no success. Now the two STEREO videos are in mono by default (this week). Can someone shed light. The "&fmt=18" isn't even working now. I hope eventually they all go stereo because You Tube obtains the original 2 channel obviously.

By: EECOLOR

EECOLOR — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:44:52 +0000

In your youtube profile, you can set your preference to high quality. That will automatically select high quality video's for you if they are available.

Greetz Erik

By: Phillip Kerman

Phillip Kerman — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:20:43 +0000

I don't think the "&fmt=18" thing is officially supported. For example, is causes the seek feature to fail.

I'm staring a list of youtube random changes and whacky UI stuff… this is up there.