Embedded YouTube in High Quality

Recently Youtube launched their own definition of HD, and it’s now possible to view clips in higher quality on Youtube. .. read this last sentence carefully because when I say on Youtube it’s ONLY on YouTube. That’s right, by default there is no way to make the video play in High Quality. But luckily we’ve found a fix for it.

In your embedded player source code, go to the part where the url ends with “rel=” and append the following code “&ap=%2526fmt%3D18”. Do this for both the “param value” and the embed src” and the embedded YouTube player on your page or Blog, will now play the file in High Quality.